SummaryOver 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 elucid... Read More
Directed By:Ai Weiwei
Written By:Chin-Chin Yap, Tim Finch, Boris Cheshirkov
Human Flow
Metascore
Generally Favorable
77
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Generally Favorable
6.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
77
95% Positive
21 Reviews
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5% Mixed
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Oct 13, 2017
100
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.
Dec 11, 2017
80
The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Poetically shot by a dozen DoPs, including Christopher Doyle, a powerful portrait of horror, hope and humanity emerges.
Sep 9, 2017
80
Shot in 23 countries, the film has an amazing breadth and a relentless moral drive that will make it a reference point for this subject, whatever the audience response may be.
Oct 25, 2017
75
Beautifully shot and deeply dispiriting, the documentary examines the global refugee crisis.
Oct 12, 2017
75
Human Flow asks us, implicitly, why we seem to care so much about certain living creatures and not others.
Oct 12, 2017
70
If Human Flow has a chance of breaking through the noise and clutter of the media surround, it’s not because the demands Mr. Ai’s documentary makes on our attention are modest; just the opposite. This movie, a testament to the power of seeing, provides a long and uncommonly vivid look at a human crisis that’s changing the face of our planet.
Sep 9, 2017
60
Lost among the bulletins and traveling shots is any sense of the individuals whose distinctiveness is eliminated under the crushing word “refugee.”
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Generally Favorable
6.2
62% Positive
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Nov 21, 2017
8
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 the refugees themselves. A bit overlong at two hours and twenty minutes, the film is very compelling nonetheless.
Jul 24, 2018
5
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 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.
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
- Redrum Production
- Ret Film
Release Date:Oct 13, 2017
Duration:2 h 20 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:When there is nowhere to go, nowhere is home.
Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 5 Wins & 6 Nominations
ZagrebDox
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations
