"Nachbarn" (Neighbours)
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Filmoteca de Catalunya Plaça Salvador Seguí 1-9, 08001 Barcelona
Image courtesy of Jewish Film Festival Barcelona
In a village on the Turkish-Syrian border in the 1980s, little Sero begins his first year of school, what follows is jokes with friends, dreams of having a television to watch cartoons on and witnessing how the adults around him are overcome by nationalist despotism and violence. A new teacher from Damascus arrives at the school, his goal is to turn Kurdish children into pan-Arab comrades, prohibit the Kurdish language and preach hatred of Jews, the “Zionist enemies.” These classes upset little Sero, since his neighbors and lifelong friends are a Jewish family. Mano Khalil portrays with a subtle sense of humor, and much satire, Sero’s childhood during the Assad dictatorship, and how it extends to the current situation in Syria.
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