Visual Talk: Cinematic Crossings - Expanding the Map of Southeast Asian Cinema
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Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
HKFFUK2026
Visual Talk: Cinematic Crossings - Expanding the Map of Southeast Asian Cinema
Where is Southeast Asia? How far can we stretch its (imagined) borders? This visual talk explores the cinematic connections linking Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, tracing the movement of filmmakers, performers, stories and production histories across borders, seas and cultural industries. Join Suyin Haynes on a journey through space — across the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong — and across time, spanning seven decades of film history. Together, we’ll discover unexpected connections between these cinemas, and rethink the map of Southeast Asia through the routes, encounters and exchanges that have shaped its films.
Presented by Suyin Haynes.
Suyin Haynes is a Malaysian British London-based writer, researcher and sometime film programmer whose work explores Southeast Asian cinemas and visual culture.
Hong Kong Film Festival UK returns for its fourth edition from 25 September to 4 October in London, presenting reflective and shape-shifting cinema from Hong Kong, the wider Asian diaspora and beyond, marking the start of a more year-round festival.
This year’s programme foregrounds diaspora as agency — behind the camera, on screen and between communities. Across contemporary and historical cinema, artists’ moving image and interdisciplinary art practices, the festival moves through questions of migration, colonisation, activism and gender. Together, these works reshape ideas of memory and community.
Contact name: Matthew Barrington
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