Ai Weiwei Movies

  • 2007
    Fairytale

    Fairytale

    Fairytale

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    Fairytale chronicles the making of an installation-cum-performance of the same name. In 2007, Ai Weiwei invited 1001 Chinese citizens of varying ages...

    Fairytale
  • 2012
    KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao

    KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao

    KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao

    02012HD

    An uncomfortable encounter between the filmmaker and the famed artist.

    KUN 13: Criticizing Ai Weiwei and Wu Haohao
  • 2010
    Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour

    Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour

    Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour

    6.52010HD

    Arts documentary, first broadcast before Ai Weiwei's arrest by the Chinese authorities in April 2011, and his subsequent release after being detained...

    Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
  • 2014
    The Sand Storm

    The Sand Storm

    The Sand Storm

    52014HD

    In the not-quite end-times, a woman, a man, a lover and a water smuggler navigate a tumultuous future city on the brink of a water shortage. A...

    The Sand Storm
  • 2012
    Ordos 100

    Ordos 100

    Ordos 100

    52012HD

    "Ordos 100" provides a picture of an Ai Weiwei at the pinnacle of his artistic fame, but not yet in the political hot water that was to give him a...

    Ordos 100
  • 2024
    Free to Create - Artists in Exile

    Free to Create - Artists in Exile

    Free to Create - Artists in Exile

    72024HD

    Artists forced to leave their country talk about the ambivalence of exile. With Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei,...

    Free to Create - Artists in Exile
  • 2016
    Heaven and Earth

    Heaven and Earth

    Heaven and Earth

    02016HD

    A Henan opera based on the complete recording of a lawsuit filed against the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau by Ai Weiwei's Fake Cultural Development...

    Heaven and Earth
  • 2020
    Cockroach

    Cockroach

    Cockroach

    72020HD

    In February 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed a bill that would have allowed the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to face trial...

    Cockroach
  • 2011
    Hormone

    Hormone

    Hormone

    72011HD

    Hormone
  • 2013
    Stay Home

    Stay Home

    Stay Home

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    Liu Ximei was born in 1985 in Xincai County, Zhumadian City in Henan Province. Being born in violation of the one child policy, she was given up to...

    Stay Home
  • 2015
    Straight

    Straight

    Straight

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    On May 12, 2008, Sichuan province suffered a devastating earthquake with thousands of deaths and many more injured and displaced. School buildings...

    Straight
  • 2014
    Play of the Play

    Play of the Play

    Play of the Play

    02014HD

    Ai Weiwei Studio presents the process of creating a Yu opera based on the first trial over Ai's fake tax case.

    Play of the Play
  • 2018
    Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires

    Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires

    Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires

    02018HD

    The documentary registers with detail this first visit to Argentina. It's a meditation on the artistic and conceptual processes that Ai Weiwei needs...

    Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires
  • 2017
    The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg

    The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg

    The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg

    5.72017HD

    Swiss collector Uli Sigg has played in the time of economic opening of China by Mao an essential role, which is still continuing. To better...

    The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg
  • 2003
    Eat, Drink and Be Merry

    Eat, Drink and Be Merry

    Eat, Drink and Be Merry

    02003HD

    In 2003, the infectious disease SARS quickly spread across China, causing widespread panic. At the peak of the hysteria accompanying the mysterious...

    Eat, Drink and Be Merry
  • 2012
    Beijing: The Second Ring

    Beijing: The Second Ring

    Beijing: The Second Ring

    02012HD

    Beijing: The Second Ring is a document of the two opposite views of traffic flow on 33 bridges along Beijing’s Second Ring. The entire piece is...

    Beijing: The Second Ring
  • 2020
    Coronation

    Coronation

    Coronation

    6.62020HD

    As the first city hit in the global pandemic, Wuhan, with a population of 11 million, was placed under an unprecedented lockdown. The film showcases...

    Coronation
  • 2020
    Vivos

    Vivos

    Vivos

    5.52020HD

    Since an attack on students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in 2014 resulted in six deaths and in the forced disappearance of 43, the...

    Vivos
  • 2019
    Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

    Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

    Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly

    8.82019HD

    Ai Weiwei, famous for his large-scale installation work and his dogged social justice advocacy, created a career-defining work in 2015 with @Large,...

    Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly
  • 2010
    One Recluse

    One Recluse

    One Recluse

    62010HD

    In June 2008, Yang Jia carried a knife, a hammer, a gas mask, pepper spray, gloves and Molotov cocktails to the Zhabei Public Security Branch Bureau...

    One Recluse