Human Flow- Directed by Ai Weiwei - A meditative and visually stunning overview of the plight of refugees around the world. 2017 S&P Award Winner Film Reviews by Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN

 Human Flow-

Directed by Ai Weiwei -

A meditative and visually stunning overview of the plight of refugees around the world.

2017 S&P Award Winner

Film Reviews  by  Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN

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The big story of the twenty-first century is the gigantic and unrelenting stream of people moving from rural villages into cities. This vast and unprecedented migration involves two to three billion people, perhaps a third of the world's population. It is having a shattering effect on family life with one result being an end to continuous population growth. Since cities have not been prepared for this large influx, the newcomers have been forced into slums, have not adapted well to urban living, have been unable to find work, and have been plunged into poverty.

Some of these refugees are fleeing famine and job loss in the countryside. Others are displaced because of climate change and war. But the deep yearning that brought them to a new life keeps them going in the face of setbacks, disappointments, and constant humiliations.

In his first feature documentary, Chinese artist and dissident Weiwei offers a meditative and cinematic overview of the plight of refugees around the world. Human Flow was filmed in 23 counties with 25 film crews with footage from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, and Turkey.

Weiwei captures our attention and slows us down with the peaceful and almost soothing shots of rescue boats filled with immigrants. They have landed on the Greek island of Lesbos and are given cups of tea. They are men and women who left their homes on the run from sporadic gunfire. They are children who have already forgotten what they learned in school. The future for them looks bleak with many crises and catastrophes just around the bend.

As Hanan Ashrawi states, being a refugee strips people of their dignity and leaves them bereft of hope. And not only human beings are suffering. In Gaza, Amir Khalil and the Four Paws organization are doing all they can to care for sick and stressed out animals. There is also a brief stop at Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the world located in Kenya.

Ai Weiwei has great empathy for these outcasts since he grew up during China's Cultural Revolution and suffered from persecution of artists. He appears from time to time in the film, lending his ardent support and cheering the refugees on like a track coach.

Walk with Me

Directed by Max Pugh, Marc J. Francis

An enchanting documentary tribute to Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and Plum Village, the monastic community he founded in 1982.

Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

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Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, poet, scholar, and human rights activist. In this documentary, filmmakers Max Pugh and Marc J. Francis (Black Gold) focus on those who have gathered around him in Plum Village, the monastic community he established in 1982 in southwestern rural France. This soft-voiced Zen master has characterized the sangha as "the masterpiece of the Buddha, a community of caring and sharing, an oasis in the world for healing and transformation."

Thich Nhat Hanh, now in his 90s, had a stroke in 2014 and has been slowly recuperating in the United States and France. Before the stroke, he was teaching mindful living around the world, scenes of which are included in the documentary. We also meet some of the other leaders of the Plum Village sangha, who convince us that his teachings are in very good hands and hearts.

Provided with three years of access to the Plum Village community, the documentary directors slow things down to meditative moments caught during walks through the woods, meals during which everyone eats mindfully in silence, and a ritual shaving of the heads of monks. The use of bells at Plum Village as mindfulness keys which calm the body and mind and bring awareness to the breath is accentuated again and again.

Music plays an important role at Plum Village as a tool for meditation. We were especially moved by the Namo Avalokiteshvara Chant, which we first heard at a New York appearance of the sangha in 2013. The many nature shots in Walk with Me are enhanced by the melodic and soothing score by Germaine Franco.

One of the most surprising treats is hearing actor Benedict Cumberbach read selections from Thich Nhat Hanh's poetry in Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals 1962-1966.

And perhaps the sweetest thing about this tribute to Thich Nhat Hanh is the time and energy given to reverencing little things. Such as the work of a monk in the kitchen cooking and two girls on a swing with one pushing and the other twirling!