Balancing What Can Be Said with What Can Only Be Implied (opens in new tab)

The young Uyghur filmmaker Ikram Nurmehmet is now in a Chinese prison for “actively participating in terrorist activities.” He was likely targeted because he had studied in Turkey between 2010 and 2016. It is always difficult for what China calls “ethnic minority” (i.e. non-Han Chinese) filmmakers to make the films they want to make inside China, where review by the state Film Administration is mandatory for all. What may be surprising is that filmmakers from Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjia...