Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has announced that he will release a documentary film about the migrant crisis next year.

Ai was speaking at a news conference in Bern on 27 April to mark the opening of the “Chinese Whispers” exhibition, featuring around 150 works of contemporary Chinese artists at theZentrum Paul Klee museum.

“It’s a documentary film, we have been shooting over 600 hours. I did hundreds of interviews, there are all kind of people: politicians, refugees or priests or NGOs… all kinds of people involved in this crisis,” he said.

Ai says he has spent a lot of time in refugee camps over the past recent months, on the Greek Island of Lesvos and at Idomeni, where he witnessed a “very difficult situation” and decided to share his experience by making a film.

He believes European politicians’ response to the crisis is stripping refugees of their “very basic human rights”.

The movie is going to come out next year. The last filming is still going on since the refugee situation is continuous, he maintains:

“We still have difficulty stopping our shooting, we still have six, seven teams working on that every day.”

Source: euronews