Screening Room: ‘Hooligan Sparrow’

This year’s Human Rights Watch Festival opens with a strong indictment of the institutional and moral corruption of modern-day China, as laid bare by a tiny insurgent bandof determined women activists.

My review ofHooligan Sparrow, whose footage had to be smuggled out of China and which opens the festival this Friday in New York, is atLittle While Lies.

Here’s the trailer: