Filmscreening & Panel: het optreden

As the festive New Year celebration of the Chinese church approaches, it becomes increasingly challenging for choir singer Lin in this short drama to conceal her transgender daughter from the community.

Lin (41) is preparing for her solo performance at the Chinese New Year celebration at her church. She aims to impress the community, but her mentor feels that her performance lacks a genuine emotional connection. He advises Lin to truly open up, but that proves difficult. When rumors circulate about her son not attending church for a while, Lin faces a tough choice. Will she continue to hide or reveal her true self?

Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion on the topic 

The screening is followed by a panel discussion facilitated by OUT&ABROAD's Yanzi Peng as moderator and our panelists Christine Chu and Cheryl Ding.
 
Yanzi Peng is Program Director of Stichting Chinese Initiative on International Law. For more than a decade he has been working experience in civil society organizations and the Chinese LGBT+ movement. During this time Peng co-founded LGBT Rights Advocacy China in 2013 to advance LGBT+ equality through China’s legal system.
 
Christine Chu(she/her) is a transgender female who has been passionate about gender-related and human rights legal issues. She is currently serving as legal and operation manager at Quarks, the first and only registered organisation targeting transgender youth in Hong Kong. She contributed to various legal initiatives in both Hong Kong and China defending the rights of gender minorities. In 2023, she founded the Hong Kong Trans Law Database as a way to introduce legal considerations into the discourse about gender-related issues and offer a pathway for the public to understand the transgender community.
 
Cheryl Ding known on Little Red Book(小红书, a Chinese-speaking online community) as "The Psychological Counselor aan de Oude Rijn" or 莱茵河畔的咨询师Cheryl, focuses on cultural-, gender-, relationship-, and neurodiversity. Cheryl works around feminism, polyamory, mourning, aging, and end-of-life with individuals, couples, and groups.