Cyclone
New York Asian Film Festival 2026
July 10 - 23
The 50th Hong Kong Film Festival’s Closing Film, Philip Yung’s follow-up to the heartbreaking Papa centers on a trans woman who leaves mainland China for Hong Kong’s back alleys, falls in love, and explores the dangerous freedom to remake herself.
Screening + Q&A
with Philip Yung and Annabelle Kayee Li (writer)
Wednesday, July 22
Showtimes
Wed, July 22
Screening + Q&A
with Philip Yung and Annabelle Kayee Li (writer)
Wednesday, July 22
Philip Yung followed the crime lyricism of Port of Call (NYAFF 2015) with the heartbreaking Papa, garnering 11 Hong Kong Film Award nominations. Now comes his boldest work yet, chosen to close the 50th Hong Kong International Film Festival. Taking its title from Mei Chaofeng, the fierce wanderer of wuxia legend, Cyclone follows a young trans woman (Yuqiao Liu) who leaves mainland China for Hong Kong, and falls in love while working to save money for gender-affirming surgery and reckoning with a traumatic past. In the city’s back alleys and transient rooms, she falls in with Ah Bian, whose affection comes tangled with damage and drug use, and Xiaomei, who lets her glimpse another way of being a woman. Yung turns exile, desire, and self-remaking into a bruised Hong Kong nocturne.
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