"When There Is Nowhere to Go, Nowhere is Home." Amazon Studios and Participant Media have released an official trailer for Human Flow, a new film directed by iconic Chinese artist/filmmaker Ai Weiwei.

The movies might be a machine that generates empathy, but Ai Weiwei's staggeringly immense new film explores what they can do to sustain it. When Ai Weiwei was detained by China’s secret police, the ...

I grew up during the Cultural Revolution. After I was born, my father, a poet, was sent into exile for over 20 years. During that period, he was prohibited from writing and subjected to hard labor.

Watch a documentary clip from "Human Flow," directed by Ai Weiwei. Photo: Amazon Studios We know them, or think we do, from TV news—beleaguered refugees from blighted lands clambering out of boats ...

The leading Chinese artist-activist lends a global perspective on the refugee crisis in his elegant new documentary. By Jordan Riefe In the opening moments of Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei’s new ...

The Chinese artist and activist questions why so much media attention is given to victims of the Houston floods and so little to victims of Bangladesh floods. By Ariston Anderson With more people ...

EXCLUSIVE: Altitude Film Distribution has picked up UK and Irish distribution rights to Human Flow, a film about the mounting global refugee crisis by world-renowned activist, artist and filmmaker Ai ...

Every life is a universe all its own.

There’s a moment an hour or so into the refugee crisis documentary Human Flow by Ai Weiwei that forced me to look away when I first saw it. It began with the artist sitting opposite a man and two ...