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《超風》: 電影放映及映後談 Cyclone: Screening and Post-Screening Talk

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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Finding Kukan: A Film Screening, Commentary and Audience Q&A with Dir. Robin Lung

In the award-winning documentary Finding KUKAN, director Robin Lung investigates the compelling story of Hawaiʻi born Li Ling-Ai, the uncredited producer of KUKAN. KUKAN is a landmark color documentary about World War II China that received an Academy Award in 1942 before becoming “lost” for decades. In Finding KUKAN, Lung discovers a badly damaged print of KUKAN and pieces together the inspirational tale behind Li and her cameraman Rey Scott. Robin Lung will present the full 75-minute documentary Finding KUKAN (in English with Chinese subtitles), speak about her 8-year-long filmmaking journey, and answer questions from the audience.

About Robin Lung:

Robin Lung is a 4th generation Chinese American from Hawaiʻi with an 18-year history of bringing untold minority and womenʻs stories to film. A Stanford University and Hunter College graduate, she became a filmmaker after successful careers in book publishing and higher education. Lung made her directorial debut with Washington Place: Hawai‘i’s First Home, a 30-minute documentary for PBS Hawai‘i about the legacy of Hawaiʻi’s Queen Lili‘uokalani and her personal home. She was the associate producer for the national PBS documentary Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority, and producer/director of the feature documentary FindingKUKAN, which was selected to be broadcasted nationally on PBS World’s America ReFramed series and has won multiple awards at film festivals across America.

Date: Monday 20 May 2019

Time: 2:30-4:30pm

Venue: 2.42, 2/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

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Minority German Literature, Black Internationalism, and Futurity

Moderator: Dr. Daniel Vukovich, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU

Once celebrated by the award of a literary prize dedicated to “migrant authors,” minority German literature has become a staple of contemporary world literature. This talk analyzes the rise of the Afro-German literary movement, its concerns with social justice, race, gender, and poetics, and the commonalities it shares with German Turkish literature and performance through tropes of blackness. Second, the presentation poses questions about the relations between minority German literature and black internationalism as an early form of exchange and activism that contributes to world literature in Western and non-Western contexts. The talk concludes by considering the function of futurity in minority literatures.

Speaker bio:

Arina Rotaru is a Lecturer at NYU Shanghai and a visitor at the Center for the Study of Cultures and Globalization at the University of Hong Kong. She holds a PhD in German Studies and Comparative Literature from Cornell University and her research covers avant-garde literature and film, postcolonial studies, world literature. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of World Literature, Germanic Review, Forum for Modern Language Studies and edited collections on Worlding Asia, Totalitarian Arts, and Aesthetics and Politics. She is currently working on two book projects on contemporary avant-garde literature in twenty-first German-speaking literature and on diasporic poetics.

Date: 10 April 2019
Time: 2-3:30pm
Venue: 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

All are welcome.

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