A new documentary film, All Static and Noise, on the ongoing atrocities against the Uyghur and Kazakh peoples in China, has just been released. Trailer on Youtube
Screenings can be booked via:
https://www.allstaticandnoise.com/
Story:
When Uyghurs and Kazakhs are arbitrarily detained in Chinese “re-education” camps, survivors and their families risk everything to expose the truth.
Jewher, a Uyghur teen from China with little English, lands in the U.S. after she is violently separated from her father, Ilham Tohti, at the Beijing airport as he is detained. Abduweli, a linguist and poet, imprisoned and tortured for teaching Uyghur language to 6-year-olds, makes his way to Istanbul upon his release. Testimony and action from survivors of China’s network of “re-education camps” (and their families, in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Europe and the United States, infuse All Static & Noise with an urgency that exposes the mass brutality of state-sponsored oppression in Western China. Together these voices highlight the moral dilemma between risking the safety of families back home by speaking out and the necessity of exposing atrocities in the hope that global awareness can bring change. With each voice we are brought closer to one of the most egregious human rights disaster of our moment. This documentary combines intimate character-driven stories with brave testimony and honors those willing to speak out. It poses difficult questions that are imperatives in our inter-connected global economy of the 21st century.
The film includes testimony from Jewher Ilham, Abduweli Ayup, Aina Shormanbayeva (President of the International Legal Initiative Public Foundation), Tahir Hamut Izgil, Mihrigul Tursun, Kalbinur Sidik, Gulbahar Jalilova, the amazing team at the Uyghur Transitional Justice Database (Bahtiyar Omer, Adiljan Abdurihim, Muetter Iliqud), and many more.