Shot in stark black and white, this provocative film from actor-turned-director Jun Li follows a young nameless gay man (Jayden Cheung, in a remarkable, daring debut) on an erotic travelogue of Hong Kong, moving from hookup to hook-up while quietly assuming the persona of his latest sexual encounter.

Whether assuming the role of a scientist, architect, actor, teacher, or delivery man, each meeting is quick — a mix of sex, conversation, and roleplay with the international gay tourists in Hong Kong — trying, maybe, to get at something real. Beneath the veneer, conversations crackle — sometimes political, sometimes tender, sometimes both. In these encounters, bodies and performance crash into each other — deeply personal, occasionally awkward, and tinged with unease. Rather than smoothing that out, Queerpanorama leans into the mess, asking what it actually means to be seen in a city built on speed and surface.