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Anisotropic flow provides valuable information on the key properties and the evolution of the matter created in heavy-ion collisions. In this talk, we present the elliptic and triangular flow of inclusive and identified particles measured in Xe-Xe collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.44$ TeV recorded by the ALICE detector. The measurements are reported for a wide range of particle transverse momenta, $p_{\rm T}$, within the pseudo-rapidity region $|\eta|<0.8$. Strong constraints on the initial conditions of a collision and hydrodynamic medium response are placed comparing these results to those from Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV. In addition, the flow harmonics of inclusive and identified particles are studied using Event Shape Engineering technique in Pb-Pb collisions. The effect of the event-shape selection is within uncertainties independent of particle species up to $p_{\rm T} \sim 8$ GeV/$c$ and the origin of this observation is discussed.
