14 February 2024

Moonlight Warrior - Film screening and Director's Q&A

Key information

Date: 14 February 2024
Time: 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Venue: Brunei Gallery Building, SOAS University of London
Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, BGLT

About this event

This event will feature a film screening of 'Moonlight Warrior 月光武士', followed by a Q&A session with Director, Hong Ying.

Adapted from Hong Ying’s novel of the same name, Moonlight Warrior tells the story of the mountain city of China, Chongqing, through the tumultuous youth of Dou Xiaoming. In 1976, Dou Xiaoming, a 12-year-old boy, is hospitalised due to an injury where he meets met the nurse Jiahui, a nurse who takes exceptional care of him. Jiahui, strikingly beautiful, is married to Gang, a local gangster, and frequently endures domestic abuse. Xiaoming’s discovery of her plight leads him to confront the injustice, faltering the destinies of all three individuals.

Moonlight Warrior garnered the Best Feature Film Screenplay Award at the 2023 Next Generation Indie Film Awards in the United States. It was also a contender at the 2022 Goa International Film Festival in India and was showcased at the 2023 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival in China.

About the Director

Hong Ying, born in Chongqing, China, embarked on her literary journey as a poet. She is widely recognised in the English-speaking world for her literary creations and photography. Her memoir, Daughter of the River, has been translated into thirty languages. Her novel K: The Art of Love was awarded the prestigious Premio Rome Prize in 2005 in Italy. Many of her literary works have been adapted into films and television series. Notably, her novel "Death in Shanghai" was transformed into "Saturday Fiction" (Lanxin Grand Theatre) by director Lou Ye, which was shortlisted in the main competition section of the 76th Venice Film Festival in 2019.

Moonlight Warrior, scripted by Hong Ying, marks her debut as a director.

Chair: Dr Xiaoning Lu, SOAS Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Registration

This event is open to the public and free to attend, however registration is required.

Please note that this event is taking place on campus and will not be recorded or live-streamed.

Organisers

This event is co-organised by the SOAS China Institute and the UK Beijing Arts Centre.

Contact

Email: sci@soas.ac.uk

Film screening of Moonlight Warrior by Hong Ying

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