Ai Weiwei Movies

  • 2012
    Discard the Old Path of Closed Doors and Rigidity and Reject Evil Attempts to Change the Party's Banner

    Discard the Old Path of Closed Doors and Rigidity and Reject Evil Attempts to Change the Party's Banner

    Discard the Old Path of Closed Doors and Rigidity and Reject Evil Attempts to Change the Party's Banner

    02012HD

    A Beijing taxi driver's special understanding of the Party's entreaty "We will not follow the old and rigid path" during the 18th Party Congress.

    Discard the Old Path of Closed Doors and Rigidity and Reject Evil Attempts to Change the Party's Banner
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2009
    Disturbing the Peace

    Disturbing the Peace

    Disturbing the Peace

    6.22009HD

    "Disturbing the Peace" is a documentary of an incident during Tan Zuoren's trial on August 12, 2009. Tan Zuoren was charged with inciting subversion...

    Disturbing the Peace
  • 2022
    Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War

    Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War

    Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War

    02022HD

    One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on commission as Official War Artist in Iceland...

    Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
  • 2014
    You Know What I Mean

    You Know What I Mean

    You Know What I Mean

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    The Bazhou police wrongfully arrested seven people without any evidence around September 16, 2001, for their involvement in the murders of two...

    You Know What I Mean
  • 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
  • 2010
    A Beautiful Life

    A Beautiful Life

    A Beautiful Life

    02010HD

    The Shanghai authorities rejected Feng Zhenghu, originated from Wenzhou, Jiejiang, China, from returning to the country for a total of eight times in...

    A Beautiful Life
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2015
    Straight

    Straight

    Straight

    02015HD

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

    Straight
  • 2022
    Rohingya

    Rohingya

    Rohingya

    02022HD

    The Rohingya are an ethnic Muslim minority from Myanmar's Rakhine State who have suffered several decades of persecution by the Burmese government....

    Rohingya
  • 2022
    Opera di Roma: Turandot

    Opera di Roma: Turandot

    Opera di Roma: Turandot

    02022HD

    Opera in three acts (1926) New Production! Celebrated contemporary artist Ai Weiwei makes his operatic debut with a new reading of Puccini’s...

    Opera di Roma: Turandot
  • 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
  • 2019
    Ximei

    Ximei

    Ximei

    02019HD

    Twenty years after China’s scandalous “Black Blood Economy,” when a million Chinese citizens were infected with HIV and countless...

    Ximei
  • 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
  • 2019
    The Rest

    The Rest

    The Rest

    52019HD

    Europe's refugees are met at eye level in a film by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who defends the ideals of humanism in the midst of the crisis.

    The Rest
  • 2012
    The Mala Desert

    The Mala Desert

    The Mala Desert

    02012HD

    The story of an encounter between a member of the 50-cent army (web commentator) and a netizen, in an attempt to resolve an online conflict.

    The Mala Desert
  • 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
  • 2010
    Sanhua

    Sanhua

    Sanhua

    02010HD

    The documentary depicts a complete picture of a chain in the cat-trading industry. Since the end of 2009 when the government began soliciting expert...

    Sanhua