Do You Know That I’m With You — doyouknowthatI'mwithyou

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We didn’t speak english at English Garden (WIP)

Installation
345 Nights

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Do You Know That I’m With You (Short film)
بىلەمسەن مەن سەن بىلەن بىللە

2026

Single channel, Docu-fiction, Uyghur/Uzbek, Netherlands
SEE NL Catalogue
Supported by Netherlands Film Fond

Sheffield Doc Fest 2026, International short film competition

Directed & Edited by
Darya Andijan

Produced by
Nils Steinmetz

Cinematographer
Letiția Popa
Darya Andijan
Nils Steinmetz

Darya evoked Gülem, a forgotten goddess of carpet weaving from the Uyghur region. They traveled across Central Asia to piece together Gülem’s fragmented beings.

This project is now being delevelped to a feature length project, I’m looking for creative partners, co-producer to continue expand on the narritive.

Do You Know That I’m With You is an artistic research project exploring political erasure of female history in the Uyghur region of China. Central to the film is Gülem, a mystical figure from Uyghur oral tradition linked to carpet weaving, whose fragmented legacy symbolizes silenced female makers. Through critical fabulation, myth-making, and Sufism, the director embarks on a journey across Transoxiana to piece together Gülem’s presence. The film weaves together imprisoned poet Gulnisa Imin’s verses, read by Uyghur women in diaspora, multi-voiced narration, and archival footage. Poetic yet narrative-driven, it evokes Gülem’s enduring presence through voices, images, and texts, confronting memory, resistance, and identity.

Publication of the research process

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