Ai Weiwei to make a film on Europe’s refugee crisis

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has described the European refugee situation as a “test for humanity”. Speaking in the Swiss capital Bern to promote a collection of contemporary Chinese art, he said his next big project would be a film on the migration issue. Ai said he had amassed 600 hours of footage for a film due out next year. It includes over 100 interviews with refugees and involves around eight shooting teams in different locations.  Ai said the refugees he interviewed were not coming to Europe “just for a better life. They want to come to be safe or to give their children a chance to study. If there is no war they want to go back to their nation. I trust them because they really have a very different culture and different language, different religion and traditions.” European countries needed to more to ease the crisis, he urged.  “Europe has not been acting as a society which can offer this very essential help or sympathy for those unfortunate people. Which is ...