Neighbours
A small village on the Syrian-Turkish border in the early 1980s: The six-year-old Kurdish boy Sero experiences his first school year in an Arab school and has to watch his small world being radically changed in the course of an absurd nationalism.
Winner | Best Film, Boston Jewish Film Festival 2021
Directed by Mano Khalil
Starring Jay Abdo, Sherzad Abdullah Abdeslam, Suleiman Abed
Drama
Kurdish with English subtitles
124 minutes
Switzerland, France
2021
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Neighbours
With a fine sense of humor and satire, the film tells of a childhood, which, between dictatorship and dark drama, also has its light moments. How much friendship, love and solidarity are possible in times of repression and despotism? "Funny and emotionally uplifting. Neighbours is an important h...
