During the month of August, the Junior Fellow team accompanied students and resident tutors to four film screenings at the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). The films viewed included Kinuyo Tanaka’s Forever a Woman (1955), about a young poet whose work earns critical acclaim just as she is diagnosed with breast cancer; a triple feature of Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s Infernal Affairs films (2002-03), an iconic crime and police drama set in Hong Kong; and Yuni (2021), a film by Kamila Andini about a teenage girl dodging premature marriage proposals as she hopes to go to university. The final screening was on 30 August, and the Morningsiders watched Bruno Dumont’s character study France (2022) about an eponymous television journalist who is shaken by an accident into reconsidering her soaring career.

Each screening was at a different cinema around the city, and attendees got to visit the West Kowloon Cultural District, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Causeway Bay.