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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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#WontBeErased: Protecting LGBTQ Youth from Conversion Therapy

In this fire-chat series, nuclear scientist Sam Brinton from the US will share his personal journey in undergoing gay conversion therapy when he was young.  He will discuss the challenges he faced and how homophobia has impacted him.  He has now transformed that traumatic experience into a positive experience and influences other people to combat homophobia.  Sam has been an important voice in the LGBTQ movement in US and will also share his experience in activism.

About Sam:

Sam is currently the Head of Advocacy and Government Affairs of the Trevor Project, an organisation providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ young people under 25. Being a nuclear scientist and queer activist and from helping people to understand the differences in advanced nuclear reactors to the dangerous practices of anti-gay conversion therapy, Sam has the passion to change the world.  This brings him to speak before the United Nations and the US Congress etc.  He has also been featured in interviews with TIME, The Guardian and many others. 

More about IDAHOT:

Held every year on May 17, IDAHOT draws the attention of policymakers, opinion leaders, social movers and shakers, the general public and the media to the violence and discrimination experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people globally.

The theme of IDAHOT 2019 is “Biphobia”. From now until May 17, Pink Alliance will be organizing a series of events to help educate the public and increase their understanding of this issue. By distributing pamphlets, we wish to promote the understanding of “Bi+Pan” sexuality. By conducting other outreach activities, including talks on gay conversion therapy by the U.S. queer activist Sam Brinton, a theatre workshop entitled “The Same, Not The Same?”, a photography / art exhibition by local Bi artists, and school talks on IDAHOT, we hope to further raise awareness of the prejudice faced by bisexuals in both the general and queer communities.

Moderators: Dr Alvin Wong and Dr Brenda Alegre

Date: Monday 6 May 2019

Time: 3:00-4:30pm

Venue: 4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU