Peter Frankopan Meets Ai Weiwei

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In the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his collaborators interviewed more than 600 refugees, aid workers, politicians, activists, doctors and local authorities in twenty-three countries around the world.

Speaking in their own words, refugees shared their experiences of migrating across borders, living in refugee camps, and struggling to rebuild their lives in unfamiliar and uncertain surroundings. They spoke about the dire circumstances that drove them to migrate, whether war, famine, or persecution; and their hopes and fears for the future.

Others provided context for the historical evolution of this crisis, the challenges for regions and states, and the options for moving forward.

In conversation with Oxford Professor Peter Frankopan, whose books The Silk Roads and The New Silk Roads offer dazzlingly original account of how our world came to be and where the 21st century will take us, Weiwei will share what he has learned first-hand about the greatest humanitarian emergency of our time.

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