1. Official Website
2. Trailer

Ai Weiwei is China's most famous international artist and outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organizes people through art and social media. In response, Chinese authorities have shut down his blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held him in secret detention. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Her detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures.

• Director: Alison Klayman
• Country: USA
• Genre: Documentary
• Year: 2012

• Run Time: 01:31:03
• imdb Score: 7.3/10 (273 votes)
• Language: English | Mandarin
• Rating: R

• Cast:

"The fluidity and convenience of digital moviemaking tools explain some of its freshness, as does Ms. Klayman's history as a budding documentarian. It's clear from watching both the feature and its earlier iterations that, while she was learning about Mr. Ai, she was also learning how to tell a visual story. It's easy to think that hanging around Mr. Ai, a brilliant Conceptual artist and an equally great mass-media interpolater, played a part in her education."
Manohla Dargis - THE NEW YORK TIMES

"The Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has achieved a prominence that makes him, in effect, the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of the Twitter age. He's also the least stuffy of dissidents, and Alison Klayman's stirring, important documentary catches his complex humanity."
Owen Gleiberrman - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

"Klayman's riveting, vérité-style film captures this burly, bigger-than-life figure over the past three years, as his activism has heightened, his art has grown increasingly confrontational and he has deliberately blurred the distinction between aesthetics and politics."
Andrew O'Hehir - SALON.COM

AWARDS

Sundance Film Festival 2012
Special Jury Prize - Documentary

FESTIVALS

Berlin Int'l Film Festival 2012

Provincetown Int'l Film Festival 2012

San Francisco Int'l Film Festival 2012

Provincetown Int'l Film Festival 2012