Ai Weiwei (Actor)

Reviews of Ai Weiwei Movies

Looking for reviews of Ai Weiwei movies? Cinafilm has a total of 158 reviews across 2 movies.

Movies starring Ai Weiwei have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 70%.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry - released in 2012 - is Ai Weiwei's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 135 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Ai Weiwei is Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case - released in 2013 - with a score of 63% based on 23 reviews.

Actor Biography

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist. Ai grew up in the far north-west of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights. He investigated government corruption and cover-ups, in particular the Sichuan schools corruption scandal following the collapse of schools in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In 2011, Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Capital International Airport on 3 April, for allegedly economic crimes. He was detained for 81 days without charge. Ai Weiwei emerged as a vital instigator in Chinese cultural development, an architect of Chinese modernism, and one of the nation's most vocal political commentators. Ai Weiwei encapsulates political conviction and his personal poetry in his many sculptures, photographs and public works. In doing this, he makes use of Chinese art forms to display the Chinese political and social issues. After being allowed to leave China in 2015, he has lived in Berlin, Germany, and, since 2019, in Cambridge, UK, with his family, working and traveling internationally.

Ai Weiwei has acted in films with Wang Feng, Yunchang He, Evan Osnos and Hillary Clinton.

Ai Weiwei has worked with these film directors: Alison Klayman and Andreas Johnsen.