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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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Global Sexualities: Weimar Berlin and the Birth of a Global Sexology

In March 1919, Magnus Hirschfeld, a pioneering sexologist and homosexual rights activist, opened the Institute of Sexual Science in central Berlin. Recognized as the first of its kind, the Institute became an international magnet, attracting both medical professionals and curious visitors from all over Europe, the Americas, and East Asia. Until Nazis destroyed the Institute in the spring of 1933, Hirschfeld and his colleagues conducted research and counseled patients. This included personalized advice on birth control, on sexual intimacy, and on strategies for coping with homosexual desire. For male and female cross-dressers, who adopted what today might be described as trans identities, the Institute pioneered hormonal treatments and gender confirmation surgery. Members of the Institute not only published their research in scientific journals but also popularized their work in print and film media. Despite its relatively brief twelve-year existence, the Berlin Institute became a global inspiration for future such programs, including the American Kinsey Institute, founded in 1947.

Date: Thursday, 18th April, 2019
Time: 6-7:30 PM
Venue: 4.36, 4/f Sir Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Speaker’s bio:

Dr. Robert Beachy received his PhD in European history at the University of Chicago in 1998. He has taught at Wake Forest University, Goucher College, and since 2014 as Associate Professor of History at Underwood International College of Yonsei University.  He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and prizes, including a John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, residential fellowships at the National Humanities Center (Duke, NC), and the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Dr. Beachy’s first book, The Soul of Commerce: Credit, Property, and Politics in Leipzig, 1750- 1840 (Brill, 2005) examined the role of early modern social ties and commercial culture in shaping political reform in Germany. Most recently, he published Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity (Knopf, 2014; Vintage PB, 2015), which won the Randy Shilts Award and has since appeared in German and Italian translations. He is now working on a monograph about the Nazi persecution of homosexuals.

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Dykes, Camera, Action! Film Screening and Q&A with Director Caroline Berler

Lesbians didn’t always get to see themselves on screen. But between Stonewall, the feminist movement, and the experimental cinema of the 1970s, they built visibility, and transformed the social imagination about queerness. Filmmakers Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, Rose Troche, Cheryl Dunye, Yoruba Richen, Desiree Akhavan, Vicky Du, film critic B. Ruby Rich, Jenni Olson, and others share moving and often hilarious stories from their lives and discuss how they’ve expressed queer identity through film.

For enquiries, please contact Ms. Christine Vicera at viceracn@hku.hk