Ai Weiwei is interviewed in Variety this week, as his documentary Human Flow prepares for its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. “I know what it is like to be viewed as an outcast,” he says of his work. “The current-day displacement of people is the largest since the end of World War II. It’s a global issue and one which tests the resolve of developed nations to uphold human rights. I am eager to understand how those values — which form the foundation of democracy and freedom — are protected and how they have been violated.”
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