Event Details
Film Details
Set in China’s Uyghur region in 2017, and spanning the months between two weddings, Nikah follows Dilber, a young woman approaching a crossroads amid the Chinese government’s surveilling and detaining of members of her community.
Location
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY
About The Performance
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Join ChinaFile for a film screening of Nikah followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
Set in China’s Uyghur region in 2017, and spanning the months between two weddings, Nikah follows Dilber, a young woman approaching a crossroads amid the Chinese government’s surveilling and detaining of members of her community. As even her most personal decisions become suddenly political, Dilber must struggle with the tension between tradition and modernity, as her world closes in around her.
Following the screening, co-directors Mukaddas Mijit and Bastien Ehouzan will be in discussion with ChinaFile Senior Editor for Investigations Jessica Batke.
“Mukaddas Mijit, a Uyghur artist and ethnomusicologist based in France, reveals a society that is silently falling apart in this intense, delicate, and sometimes funny film.” —Liberation
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Images: Film still from Nikah / Courtesy of Asia Society via Icarus Films from The dGenerate Films Collection