It also won the Queer Cannes in the same year. The film won Best Screenplay at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Set in 18th century France, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a story of the daughter of a French aristocrat who develops an affair with the painter commissioned to create her wedding portrait.
As Trisha’s friends dress her up as a different person at every night of her wake, they look back on her life and her struggles and victories as a transgender woman in Filipino society. Die Beautiful is a Filipino film about Trisha, a transgender woman who dies after being crowned winner of a gay beauty pageant.
