Human Flow

"Director Ai Weiwei’s exposé about the global refugee crisis opens with long drone-captured shots of small boats travelling across a seemingly endless expanse of water. The colour of the ocean and the sky is a similar kind of blue: pale, shimmering aqua. Our minds don’t know what to make of a tableau as vast and awe-inspiring as this; the feeling is like trying to contemplate infinity."

"There's nothing especially distinctive about the package, nothing to tell you this is the work of the most recognisable living artist of the moment."

"A powerful portrait of horror, hope and humanity emerges."

"This is angry, thoughtful, straightforward activist journalism: blunt, simple and impossible to ignore."

"Mr. Ai's ambition in "Human Flow" is as expansive as his reach and his apparently deep-pocketed resources."

"An ambitious, humane and often shocking cine-essay on the subject of migrants and the 21st century migrant condition."

"An artful, solemn globe-hop epic of the refugee crisis with an unfortunate cast of millions."

"[A] long, engrossing, visually stunning documentary ..."

"Although maybe a little naive in places, this is an unflinching record of a cry of anguish that has to be heard and acted upon. Everyone needs to see this."