While we don’t normally think of South Korea producing gay-themed films, in recent years a few have emerged from the country, revealing a country still coming to terms with having openly LGBT people. Now one movie from the nation has picked up the 6th Queer Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, according to THR.

The Weight, from director Jeon Kyu-hwan, is a drama about a young hunchback man living a solitary life working in a morgue, who fantasises about the lives of the corpses he meets, and the clashes between his adoptive mother and transgender stepbrother.

Other films in competition include Brian De Palma’s Passion; Den Skaldede Frisor (All You Need is Love) from Susanne Bier; Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss of the Damned; Acciaio (Steel) from Stefano Mordini; Pascal Bonitzer’s Cherchez Hortense (Looking for Hortense); and 6 Sull’Autobus (6 On the Bus), which features six parallel stories from different Italian directors: Simone Dante Antonelli, Giacomo Bisordi, Rita de Donato, Irene di Lelio, Antonio Ligas, and Emiliano Russo.

The award is open to the best film in the official selection, either in or out-of-competition, or in any of the festival’s three main sidebars, and must ‘accurately portray lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender characters.’