All Static & Noise

Jewher, a Uyghur teen from China with little English, lands in the US after she is violently separated from her father at the Beijing airport when he is arrested. 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 “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. With each voice we come closer to one of the most egregious human rights disaster of our moment, at an unimaginable scale. The first feature-length documentary on the subject to combine intimate character-driven stories with brave testimony, All Static & Noise honors those willing to speak out and poses haunting but imperative questions for our interdependent world.