Film Screening: Nikah
Off-Campus Arts Event
Film Screening: Nikah
Set in China’s Uyghur region in 2017, and spanning the months between two weddings, Nikah follows a young woman approaching a crossroads amid the Chinese government’s surveilling. Use code SENSTU at checkout for $10 student tickets.
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Asia Society
October 28, 2024 | 6:00 pm
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Event Details

Join ChinaFile for a film screening of Nikah followed by a discussion with the filmmakers. Co-directors Mukaddas Mijit and Bastien Ehouzan will be in discussion with ChinaFile Senior Editor for Investigations Jessica Batke.

Film Details

2024, 56 minutes, Uyghur and French with English subtitles

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

Use code SENSTU at checkout for $10 student tickets.

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

For more information, please visit the event website.

Images: Film still from Nikah / Courtesy of Asia Society via Icarus Films from The dGenerate Films Collection