Darya Andijan is an identity created in 2023, rooted in the Uyghur region in China and now based in the Netherlands. She’s tracing back her female lineage by practicing Sufism, but often falls in a line between a believer and a non-believer.
During her MA at the Netherlands Film Academy, she explored film, performance, and expanded cinema. She creates works that weave myths, poetry, and family history to challenge oppression and colonial erasure. Her practice, rooted in critical fabulation, envisions a future where Uyghur cultural memory is reclaimed and woven into new forms of resistance.
Her works have been presented at Qyzqaras Film Festival, Li-Ma, and Festival L’Europe autour de l’Europe, and she participated in Lab Week of EYE Museum with Apichatpong Weerasethakul in 2025.
Upcoming
02.11.2025 |Nomsiz central asian experimental film festival
Yo’l kira:new experimental cinema of Central Asia.
29.10-07.11.2025 | Asian Movie Night x Qyzqaras Autumn
Screening of Lady of heaven.
Performance with Lady of heaven.
Artist Talk.
10.10.2025 | Botanical Uprisings,
24.09.2025 | Public screening "With and Through"
As part of Lab Week of EYE Museum with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.