Inconvenient Women and the State of China: The Hong Kong International Film Festival 2008

Among the 'miserabalist' Chinese films at the 2008 Hong Kong Film Festival Mike Walsh discovers a vein of strong female characters railing against the system in films such as As The Spring Comes (Gu Chang-wei, 2007), Bingai (Feng Yan, 2007) and The Way We Are (Ann Hui, 2008).