Human Flow
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Documentary
140 min
| 16 V
When there is nowhere to go, nowhere is home. 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.
This film gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration, elucidating both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Captured over the course of an eventful year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe in countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey.
Witness their desperate search for safety, shelter and justice: from teeming refugee camps to perilous ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders; from dislocation and disillusionment to courage, endurance and adaptation; from the haunting lure of lives left behind to the unknown potential of the future.
Will our global society emerge from fear, isolation, and self-interest and choose a path of openness, freedom, and respect for humanity?
Cast
Hanan Ashrawi, Ai Weiwei
Directed by
Ai Weiwei
Music
Karsten Fundal
Screenplay
Chin-Chin Yap, Tim Finch, Boris Cheshirkov