Hope springs eternal in Berlin
Cancer survivor and filmmaker Edgar Tang tracks down a man cured of HIV by a fluke, writes RACHEL LOI
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IT was in the middle of last year, when cancer survivor Edgar Tang first heard about The Berlin Patient. The 38-year-old was driving home one night while listening to the BBC World Service radio station, when a short blurb came on about a man in Berlin who had been cured of HIV.
"It made me wonder if I had just heard a fictional story. He almost seemed like a mythical creature of sorts. So I called my old friend (Dzul Sungit) who lives in Rotterdam, and I said I'm coming to Berlin. I don't know why, I just want to find out more about The Berlin Patient," says Tang, a trained filmmaker who is currently a producer at HBO Asia.
So a few months later, he hopped on a plane to Berlin, and began a journey that would eventually result in his upcoming documentary, I Hugged The Berlin Patient.
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