Event Details
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Screening: 5:00-7:00 pm (In Chinese with Chinese and English subtitles)
Post-Screening Talk: 7:00-8:00 pm (in Cantonese and Mandarin)
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU
Registration link: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?ueid=109525
All HKU staff and students are welcome. Registration requires HKU Portal ID.
*Please note that this film is restricted to persons aged 18 or above (ID check at entrance).
About the Film
Named after Cyclone Mei, the unfairly maligned tragic figure in Louis Cha’s martial arts novels, Cyclone works as a sex worker in Hong Kong to save up for gender-affirming surgery. But the more her identity is denied by the world and those around her, the more her desires begin to diminish. Anchored by a powerful performance by Liu Yuqiao as the eponymous protagonist, Philip Yung’s transgender drama is a poignant and empathetic tale of a lost soul searching for a place of belonging.
About the Director
Philip Yung (翁子光) is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, and critic. He won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay for Port of Call (2015) and was named Best Director at the 31st Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for Papa (2024).
Speakers & Guests
Director: Philip Yung 翁子光
Leading actress: Liu Yuqiao 劉語喬
Screenwriter and supporting director: Thomas Leung 梁永豪 and Carmen Hau 侯嘉雯
Co-writer and intimacy coordinator: Annabelle Li 李嘉怡
Moderator: Alvin Wong, Comparative Literature, HKU
Discussant: Roland Cheng, Comparative Literature, HKU
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