#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director James MacDonald

Status Released

Release Date 2013-04-11

Storyline

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.