It features interviews with key players in Ai’s adaptation of “Turandot” including longtime friend, choreographer Chiang ...

UPDATED to note producer and executive producer of Ai Weiwei’s Turandot. CPH:DOX, the renowned documentary festival in ...

Dir/scr: Ai Weiwei. Germany. 2025. 122mins. In China, men armed with poles work as a team to club to death the urban street ...

The film follows Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei as he makes his debut as an opera director at the Rome Opera House, with a radical interpretation of Puccini’s century-old masterpiece.

“What I like about documentary,” he tells Deadline in ... “Sacred relationship is from the very beginning,” Ai Weiwei observes. “If you look at the cave paintings or early Chinese ...

By Zoey Poll For part of the year, the artist and activist Ai Weiwei works in a cavernous ... a large world map that helped him plan his documentary on refugees, “Human Flow” (2017), leaned ...

Holmes" (pictured); Chinese authorities have returned the passport of dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who had been unable to leave the country since 2011; the makers of the documentary about crowd ...