Cyclone

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.