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Hooligan Sparrow
NAME OF FILM: HOOLIGAN SPARROW
DIRECTOR(S): Nanfu Wang
GENRE: Documentary Film
SYNOPSIS: Traversing southern China, a group of activists led by Ye Haiyan, a.k.a. Hooligan Sparrow, protest a scandalous incident in which a school principal and a government official allegedly raped six students. Sparrow becomes an enemy of the state, but detentions, interrogations and evictions can’t stop her protest from going viral.
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