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#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei (2013)
Directed by James MacDonald
Overview
On 3 April 2011, as he was boarding a flight to Taipei, the Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing Airport. Advised merely that his travel “could damage state security”, he was escorted to a van by officials after which he disappeared for 81 days. On his release, the government claimed that his imprisonment related to tax evasion.
Length 125 minutes
Actors
Christopher Goh | Junix Inocian | Andrew Koji | Orion Lee | David Lee-Jones | Andrew Leung | Richard Rees | David Tse | Benedict Wong | Josie Bloom | Gregory Champkin | Sam Churchill | Alexandra Donnachie | Roxy Dunn | Demi Jo Franks | Ceri-Rose Larcombe | Amy McCallum | Craig Miller | Laura Riseborough | Joshua Sanderson