San Francisco Classical Voice

The San Francisco Classical Voice’s Janos Gereben highlights films to watch during this year’s SFFILM festival, including Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly.

“The story began with the San Francisco exhibit of @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, which transformed the former island penitentiary and engaged nearly 900,000 visitors in a conversation about human rights and personal freedom. One artwork, Ai Weiwei’s Yours Truly, invited the public to compose messages to prisoners of conscience around the world, resulting in some 90,000 postcards being sent.

The film follows these postcards around the globe — from Alcatraz Island to Beijing, Washington, D.C., and Cairo — as former prisoners of conscience and their families discuss their difficult choices and the comfort they took from personal postcards reminding them that they were not forgotten.”