HUMAN FLOW
Director: Ai Weiwei
140 minutes. Documentary. Germany, USA, China. 2017. Subtitled. Colour. D-Cinema.
Official Selection, 2017 Venice Film Festival; World Premiere, 2017 Telluride International Film Festival.
‘When there is nowhere to go, nowhere is home’.
Co-produced and directed by internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, Human Flow is a profound new work of cinema, shot in 23 countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey over the course of more than a year. Capturing the immense scale of displacement caused by war, climate change and famine, this documentary gives powerful visual expression to the humanity of refugees caught up in the largest human displacement since World War II. In a celebration of the dignity of life the film offers hope for humanity but with a warning that much needs to be done.
(Notes Maria O’Brien)
The screening will be introduced by Dr Dave Robbins, assistant professor in journalism at DCU. His research concerns the media’s treatment of climate change, and he is co-proposer of a new Masters programme at DCU looking at social responses to the issue.
