Name: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2012-06-14
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Ai Weiwei, Chen Danqing, Li Zhanyang, Hung Huang, Ethan Cohen

2012·Documentary·1h 32m

7.1

★

An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and political activism, endured between 2008 and 2011, from his rise to world fame via the Internet to his highly publicized arrest due to his frequent and daring confrontations with the Chinese authorities.

Directed by Alison Klayman

freedom of speech

earthquake

social activism

dissident

contemporary art

twitter

social media

duringcreditsstinger

woman director

communist china

crowdfunded film

political persecution

Trailer

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Where to Watch

Cast

Ai Weiwei

Self - Artist

Chen Danqing

Self - Artist

Hung Huang

Self - Magazine Publisher

Gu Changwei

Self - Filmmaker

Yunchang He

Self - Performance Artist

Christiane Amanpour

Self - TV Host (archive footage)

Oliver North

Self - US Military Officer (archive footage)

Liu Xiaobo

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Hillary Clinton

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Crew

Alison Klayman

Director

Alison Klayman

Director of Photography

Alison Klayman

Producer

Julie Goldman

Executive Producer

Alison Klayman

Co-Editor

Alison Klayman

Sound

Matt Gundy

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Ai Weiwei

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Popular Reviews

13 reviews

Bucky

8.0★ · 01/04/23

Was recommended to watch this for a uni project.
This guy seems so harmless (bro was chilling while his studio was being destroyed by the Chinese government), and the government thought he was an issue because he wanted to collect the death toll from the 2008 earthquake?? But then again this is the same government that has concentration camps for Muslims…

Louise Vilenne

7.0★ · 03/08/22

“The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.”
Ai Weiwei blijft mijn favoriete kunstenaar

Andrew Backhouse

8.0★ · 12/20/25

Andrew Backhouse

6.0★ · 12/15/25

Alan Breslin

8.0★ · 05/29/25