Who would have guessed the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei would pick up where moguls such as Sam Spiegel left off. Ai’s new film, Human Flow, while certainly epic in scope, is not exactly meant as entertainment. This is an urgent, deep soak in the current refugee crisis. Ai Weiwei’s camera shows us the enormity of the problem – now it’s our turn to do something. Human Flow was showing at the Venice film festival and will be released in UK cinemas in December

Source: The Guardian August 31, 2017 19:02 UTC