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The CUHK French Programme, in partnership with the French Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macau and the Institut Français, is pleased to present the French Animated Film Festival 2026.
📅 Date: Thursday, 15 October 2026
🕡 Time: 6:30 p.m.
📍 Venue: LSK LT5, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
🎬 Featured Film: La Traversée (The Crossing) by Florence Miailhe (2020, 1h24)
Language: French with English subtitles
The Crossing tells the story of Kyona and Adriel, two children forced to flee their homeland and embark on a remarkable journey across a continent marked by exile, persecution, and hope. Combining stunning hand-painted animation with a powerful coming-of-age story, the film offers a moving exploration of migration, resilience, and freedom.
🍴 Free French finger food and refreshments will be served before the screening.
✅ Free admission
✅ Open to all CUHK students
✅ Students are welcome to bring a friend
This event provides a wonderful opportunity to discover contemporary French animation, experience French culture, meet other students interested in French, and enjoy an evening together with members of the French Programme.
We look forward to welcoming you to the French Animated Film Festival 2026! 🇫🇷🎥✨
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The German team of the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages invites you to the “German Easter Night”!
This is a meeting of and for German-speaking students and for anyone interested in German and German-speaking countries who enjoy to celebrate! Come and
Date/time Thursday, 19 March starting at 6 pm
Venue i-Lounge (3.F., Yasumoto International Park)
Please register via Google forms by 17.3.2026 to help us with our planning.
In order to register, follow the link https://forms.gle/snrDA9PqG8Zrtjxr7
Would you like to lead a game?
Yes? Then please write an e-mail to annettefromel@cuhk.edu.hk.
We are looking forward to seeing you!
The German Team of the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages
Author of the award‑winning novel Winter in Sokcho
📅 Wednesday, 18 March
🕒 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
📍 UCA 102
Come and meet one of the most original voices in contemporary French‑language literature.
Élisa Shua Dusapin — born to a French father and South Korean mother, and raised between Paris, Seoul, and Porrentruy — has quickly become an international literary figure.
Her debut novel, Winter in Sokcho, won major prizes including the National Book Award for Translated Literature (2021), and was later adapted for the stage and turned into a 2024 film by Koya Kamura.
She is also the author of Pachinko Balls (Swiss Literature Prize) and Vladivostok Circus (Femina Prize shortlist).
Her works have been translated into over 35 languages.
✨ Join us for a one‑hour Q&A and discover this singular, powerful literary voice.
The French Programme is glad to announce that Ho Chi Hin, Elvis, a student of the French Programme and CUHK candidate for the 2026 Interuniversity French Speech Competition has won the First Prize in the A2/B1 category, against 10 other students! The event was held in the Chinese University of Hong Kong on March 7 2026, and the topic of the competition was: “daily life in 2025”. 🎉
🏆 Elvis will enjoy a fully sponsored 4-week French course (course and accommodation) at Inflexyon French School, in Lyon and a plane ticket subsidy of up to HKD6,000, offered by Cabinet Mayer & Associés.
He represented CUHK with excellence and made the French team and the whole Department very proud!
👏 Bravo Elvis pour cette belle victoire!
