Ai Weiwei – MRQE

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Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Since an attack on students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in 2014 resulted in six deaths and in the forced disappearance of 43, the students families have been living in limbo with their unanswered questions, their struggle embodying the psychological and emotional toll of endemic violence upon Mexican society.

Animality

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ai Weiwei examines our relationship with animals, from China and Egypt to the Danish mink farms. At times violent, always thought-provoking – and above all, a mirror image of ourselves.

Coronation

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

As the first city hit in the global pandemic, Wuhan, with a population of 11 million, was placed under an unprecedented lockdown. The film showcases the incredible speed and power of Chinas state machinery in its fight against the virus. On the other side of the scale is the crushing bureaucracy of that same machine.

The Rest

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Human Flow

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai Weiwei examines the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Over the course of one year in 23 countries, Weiwei follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe, including Afghanistan, France, Greece, Germany and Iraq.

Ai Weiwei’s Appeal ¥15,220,910.50

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ai Weiweis Appeal ¥15,220,910.50 opens with Ai Weiweis mother at the Venice Biennial in the summer of 2013 examining Ais large S.A.C.R.E.D. installation portraying his 81 day imprisonment. The documentary goes onto chronologically reconstruct the events that occurred from the time he was arrested at the Beijing airport in April 2011 to his final court appeal in September 2012. The film portrays the day-to-day activity surrounding Ai Weiwei, his family and his associates ranging from consistent visits by the authorities, interviews with reporters, support and donations from fans, and court dates. The Film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on January 23, 2014.

Ping’an yueqing

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Pingan yueqing investigates the 2010 death of Qian Yunhui, a village leader from Yueqing in the eastern province of Zhejiang, who died under suspicious circumstances that authorities deemed a road accident. The film recounts Qians death in which he was crushed by the wheels of a truck.