Screening and Discussion -- All Static & Noise
Don't miss the chance to see the award-winning documentary 'All Static & Noise' screening at Napier University on Sunday 3rd November for one day only during its tour of Europe and the UK!
About Screening and Discussion -- All Static & Noise
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Attendance is FREE and open to the public.
The award-winning documentary All Static & Noise will screen at Napier University for one day during its tour of Europe and the UK. Don’t miss the chance to see a documentary that sheds light on the ongoing atrocities occurring in the Uyghur Region of China and offers hope and inspiration to oppressed and traumatised peoples living with conflict, conquest, and occupation throughout the world. Brought to the screen by those directly impacted by the crisis, the film was made in collaboration with 21 organizations in 7 countries, demonstrating the power that comes from collective creative solidarity. Post-screening discussion immediately following with the film's director, David Novack.
Location: A17 Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus,
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.
"All Static & Noise is for sure a necessary film because it breaks the silence. It tells the world about the Uyghur people and how they are both vulnerable and strong. And that matters. The story of their abuse and oppression, paradoxically, is both unique and also universal in the resilience and the strength of character it calls for. And for the audience – there is a moral call to action, to know and to remember, as watching this film is bearing witness from the beginning to the end. "
-- Modern Times Review
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