Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is a 2012 documentary film about Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, directed by American filmmaker Alison Klayman. Director Klayman received awarded a special jury prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for the film, which also opened the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, North America’s largest documentary festival, in Toronto on April 26, 2012.
Director: Alison Klayman
Writer: Alison Klayman
Stars: Ai Weiwei, Danqing Chen and Ying Gao
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is the first feature-length film about the
internationally renowned Chinese artist and activist, Ai Weiwei. In
recent years, Ai has garnered international attention as much for his
ambitious artwork as his political provocations. From 2008 to 2010,
Beijing-based journalist and filmmaker Alison Klayman gained
unprecedented access to Ai Weiwei. Klayman documented Ai's artistic
process in preparation for major museum exhibitions, his intimate
exchanges with family members and his increasingly
public clashes with the Chinese government. Klayman's detailed portrait
of the artist provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and
one of its most compelling public figures.
