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Sep 7, 2023 · Mukaddas Mijit and Bastien Ehouzan’s Nikah is extraordinary. It is a quiet film, a portrait of a young Uyghur woman and her family living in a Uyghur world in the late 2010s. It is astonishing in its restraint, in the way it remains true to a ground-level view of what it looked and felt like to be on the verge of internment.
May 30, 2024 · In ‘Nikah’: An astonishing portrait of Uyghur life on the edge of erasure, Darren Byler introduces a film about a traditional Uyghur wedding rite that has been banned in Xinjiang: The story on the surface is a simple one.
Dilber is 27, and her mother wants to quickly find a husband for her — especially now that her younger sister Rena is settling into newly married life. But it’s 2017, a time when Uyghur people are being arrested without people knowing why.
Held at the New Parkway Theater on May 19, 2024, after the screening of NIKAH during CAAMFest 2024, our Festival and Exhibitions Director, Thuy Tran, conduct...
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Sep 11, 2023 · Mukaddas Mijit and Bastien Ehouzan’s Nikah is extraordinary. It is a quiet film, a portrait of a young Uyghur woman and her family living in a Uyghur world in the late 2010s. It is astonishing in its restraint, in the way it remains true to a ground-level view of what it looked and felt like to be on the verge of internment.
Sep 28, 2023 · Nikah. U-jazdowski Cinema and the Sinopsis research group invite you to a special screening of the film Nikah (directed by Mukaddas Mijit and Bastien Ehouzan, 2022) followed by a discussion about the Uyghur genocide with the participation of invited guests: the director Mukaddas Mijit, the activist Rushan Abbas and the sinologist dr ...
Directed by Bastien Ehouzan, Mukaddas Mijit. Narrative Features; France, The Uyghur Region; Drama; Uyghur; Subtitled; 2024; 56 mins; West Coast premiere
