Mukaddas Mijit

Dilber is 27, and her mother wants to quickly find a husband for her — especially now that her younger sister Rena is settling into newly married life. But it’s 2017, a time when Uyghur people are being arrested without people knowing why. And one of those detained is Rena’s husband, questioned and held by the local district committee.

A Poem About Exile unfolds as a collective manifesto. Via fluid dance movements, evocative verses of poetry, and the ethereal melodies of electronic music, diaspora Uyghur artists weave a tapestry of their shared experiences of pain and yearning for a home.