Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang (born 1957, Kuching, Malaysia) directed a dozen full-lenght films, among which Rebels of Neon God, Vive l'Amour (Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, 1994), The River (Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, 1997), The Hole, The Wayward Cloud, Face, Stray Dogs (Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, 2013).