Join us for a screening and discussion of the award-winning documentary All Static & Noise.
Tightly edited and powerfully scored, this film features atrocities occurring in the western region of China among Uyghur and Kazakh people. Brought to the screen by those directly impacted by the crisis, the film highlights a story that everyone should know about and offers hope in the resiliency and determination of its heroes.
The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Director David Novack, UK-based Stop Uyghur Genocide Director Rahima Mamut, and Mia Hasenson-Gross, Executive Director of René Cassin – the Jewish voice for human rights in the UK.
Film Synopsis
When Uyghurs and Kazakhs are arbitrarily detained in "re-education" camps by Chinese authorities, camp survivors and their families risk everything to expose the truth in order to inspire change.
Jewher, a Uyghur teen from China with no English, lands in the US after she is violently separated from her father 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 will bring change.
