Human Flow

Name: Human Flow
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 13, 2017
Duration: 140 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Ahmad Shuja, Amir, Amir Khalil, Asmaa Al-Bahiyya, Boris Cheshirkov

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Mars Distribution | Release Date: October 13, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Ahmad Shuja, Amir, Amir Khalil, Asmaa Al-Bahiyya, Boris Cheshirkov, Eman Al-Masina, Fadi Abou Akleh, Filippo Grandi, Hanan Ashrawi, Hiba Abed, Israa Abboud, Marin Din Kajdomcaj, Marisa P. Elham and Family, Maya Ameratunga, Muhammed Hassan, Nida Muhammad, Peter Bouckaert, Princess Dana Firas of Jordan, Rami Abu Sondos, Rania Khaleel Awad Al-Mutamid, Salam Kamal Aldeen, Wella Kouyou, Yamama Al-Awaad

Summary: Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentaryOver 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. Human Flow, an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact.… Expand

Director: Ai Weiwei

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 140 min

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RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Oct 13, 2017

Though Donald Trump is never mentioned by name in all 140 minutes of Ai Weiwei’s new documentary, Human Flow, the picture is, quite simply, the most monumental cinematic middle finger aimed at his scandal-laden administration to date. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Aug 31, 2017

Human Flow is an epic portrait of mass migration that understands how a lack of empathy often stems from a failure of imagination. Read full review

James Mottram

Dec 11, 2017

The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Poetically shot by a dozen DoPs, including Christopher Doyle, a powerful portrait of horror, hope and humanity emerges. Read full review

Noel Murray

Oct 11, 2017

Ai’s approach occasionally tips too far toward aestheticizing a dire situation. Read full review

Mark Feeney

Oct 25, 2017

Beautifully shot and deeply dispiriting, the documentary examines the global refugee crisis. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Oct 13, 2017

The beauty of Ai’s epic imagery feels like a perpetual challenge: Are you looking? Are you listening? Are you responding? Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Sep 9, 2017

Lost among the bulletins and traveling shots is any sense of the individuals whose distinctiveness is eliminated under the crushing word “refugee.” Read full review

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fluboss

Dec 10, 2017

This movie is honest and depressing, but we have to face the truth. Every person should watch this movie because it shows the world we live in and what our actions today might bring for the future. Ai Weiwei does a great job with the flow of the movie and plays a lot with silence to give theThis movie is honest and depressing, but we have to face the truth. Every person should watch this movie because it shows the world we live in and what our actions today might bring for the future. Ai Weiwei does a great job with the flow of the movie and plays a lot with silence to give the viewer time to think during watching.… Expand

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Indiefilmlover

Nov 21, 2017

This timely documentary feels like it is ripped from today's headlines. It puts a human face on the worldwide refugee crisis. The director Ai Weiwei takes us on a journey to various parts of the world (mainly Europe and the Middle East) where we get to hear the moving stories of theThis timely documentary feels like it is ripped from today's headlines. It puts a human face on the worldwide refugee crisis. The director Ai Weiwei takes us on a journey to various parts of the world (mainly Europe and the Middle East) where we get to hear the moving stories of the refugees themselves. A bit overlong at two hours and twenty minutes, the film is very compelling nonetheless.… Expand

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Proteus

Jul 24, 2018

The movie provides one half of relevant information on the subject. The other half starts with famine and war being at all time lows in human history and displacement or migration or movement of peoples not only all time lows but the most natural part of human history of all. The movie saysThe movie provides one half of relevant information on the subject. The other half starts with famine and war being at all time lows in human history and displacement or migration or movement of peoples not only all time lows but the most natural part of human history of all. The movie says under 10% of people have been displaced. For 99% of human history humans were nomads. There were no nations states or cities. Humans thrived and became the dominant species on earth. Movement and migration is in our DNA.

Plague, famine and war were the biggest threats to life for millennia upon millennia. Not any more. Far more people die of obesity than famine. Cancer than war. Car accidents than plague. Keep your skeptical hat on when watching movies like this. They invariably provide only one side of an issue.… Expand

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