Synopse
DOCUMENTARY For the last two years, Ai Wei Wei has lived outside China as an involuntary emigré. The people that he met on a year-long journey through 23 countries aren't prominent dissidents or artists. They have fled war and misery, through jungle, over mountains and across seas. Ai Weiwei has been to Kenya and Iraq, Gaza and Italy, to refugee centres in Berlin and Greek beaches and talked to people who left everything behind. In haunting pictures, he gives space to the hopes, privations and fears of his protagonists, who represent the 65 million displaced people in the world today.
Regie
Born in 1957 in Peking, AI WEIWEI (*1957) is one of the best-known artists in the world. Imprisoned for a few months in 2011 for criticising the government, he was then forbidden from travelling abroad. In 2015, he left China and today amongst other things teaches at the University of Arts in Berlin.
Info
Original Title: Human Flow
International Title: Human Flow
Category: Documentary feature
Section: Veto!
Version & Subtitles: English OV with English subtitles
Director: Ai Weiwei
Screenplay: Chin-Chin Yap, Tim Finch, Boris Cheshirkov
Cast/Protagonists: Boris Cheshirkov, Princess Dana Firas of Jordan, Marin Din Kajdomcaj, Ahmad Shuja, Hanan Ashrawi, Peter Bouckaert
Production country: Germany
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 140 min
Producer: Heino Deckert, Ai Weiwei, Chin-Chin Yap
Production company: 24 Media Production Company, AC Films, Ai Weiwei Studio, Ginger Ink and Halliday Finch, Green Channel, HighLight Films, Human Flow, Maysara Films, Optical Group Film & TV Productions, Participant Media Redrum Production, Ret Film
Cinematography: Ai Weiwei, Murat Bay, Christopher Doyle, Huang Wenhai, Konstantinos Koukoulis, Renaat Lambeets, Li Dongxu, Lv Hengzhong, Ma Yan, Johannes Waltermann, Xie Zhenwei, Zhang Zanbo
Editor: Niels Pagh Andersen
Music: Karsten Fundal
World Sales: Participant Media
Distributor: Christoph Ott, NFP marketing & distribution GmbH
