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Leon Lee's 23-minute film titled "The Day To Choose" puts its
main character, a lawyer and strong opponent of the death
penalty, in the difficult position of choosing how to punish the
murderers of his wife.
Taiwan retains the death penalty despite calls to abolish it in
line with international practice, but some have argued it is
necessary in extreme cases such as the beheading of a
four-year-old girl on a Taipei street in March.
Lee, a student in the German language department at Soochow
University, developed the film with his producer Cheng Kuang-yu,
based on a script that Cheng had long wanted to realize.
"What I really want to discuss in this short film is not only
the issue of capital punishment, but how much a human will stick
to (his or her ideals) when faced with adversity," Lee told
Reuters on the set of the film.
The picture will screen in the short film corner at the
prestigious annual Cannes festival in France on May 11-22 and
has already won "Best Drama Short Film" at the 2016 Universe
Multicultural Film Festival in California last month.
(Writing by Patrick Johnston in Singapore; Editing by Simon
Cameron-Moore)
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