Description
Human Flow (12A)
Director: Ai Weiwei
Starring: Israa Abboud, Hiba Abed, Rami Abu Sondos
Documentary | Germany | USA | France | Palestine | China | 2017 | 2 hrs 20 mins
“As globalisation continues to expand the interdependence of national economies, our world is shrinking at roughly the same rate as the polar ice caps. The film’s titular motif of humanity fleeing from war-torn countries mirrors the rising levels of ocean water threatening to submerge large portions of our continents, not to mention entire islands. What makes this film so urgent and unsettling is the indisputable proof it presents to affirm that the number of displaced people on our planet will be growing exponentially with every passing year. “ Matt Fagerholm, Roger Ebert ****
“Ai Weiwei engages with the subject in fiercely human terms and he compellingly shows that migration is itself a new condition of global market forces, which have disrupted peoples the way world war did a century ago. ”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian ****
Monday 23 Oct. 7.30 pm
St. Mary’s Church, Swanage BH19 1HU
£7.00: £5.50 (Students and under 25s)
