Nachbarn

Neighbours
Nachbarn
Voisins
Vicini

Switzerland / France, January 2021
FILM, Fiction, 124 min.

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directed by
Mano Khalil
Written by
Mano Khalil
Status
In distribution
Website
www.framefilm.ch

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. Humorous yet serious, the film tells of a childhood that also finds its light moments between dictatorship and dark drama.

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World Premiere
January 2021
Original Version
Arabic, Kurdish, Hebrew (slovak/arabic/greek/ancient (to 1453)/italian/kurdish/french/english/german subtitles),  couleur, DCP, 124 min.
ISAN
0000-0004-D26A-0000-5-0000-0000-M
Production
Frame Film GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SRG SSR, ARTE G.E.I.E.
Producer
Mano Khalil
directed by
Mano Khalil
Written by
Mano Khalil
Cinemato­graphy
Stéphane Kuthy
Editing
Thomas Bachmann
Location Sound Mix
Mourad Keller
Sound Design
Thomas Bachmann
Re-Recording Mix
Dominik Rätz
Music
Mario Batkovic
Animation
Jérémie Dupraz, Babis Venetopoulos
Production Design
Sara B. Weingart, Taha Khalil
Lighting Design
Elias Fernandez Salomon
Costumes
Linda Harper, Gulsan Ozer
Make up
Julia Nietlispach

Cast

Nasima Aldaher as Shamsa
Serhed Khalil as Sero
Jay Abdo as Nahum
Derya Uygurlar as Hannah
Tuna Dwek as Rosa
Jalal Altawil as Lehrer
Ismail Zagros as Aram
Bengin Ali as Ali
A. Zirek as Hamo
Jiyan Armanc as Raoshan

World Sales / World Rights

World Rights
Frame Film GmbH

Worldwide Distribution

Canada
Menemsha Films Distribution
Release date: 01.12.2021
Germany
barnsteiner-film Distribution
Release date: 13.10.2022
Israel
Go2films Distribution
Norway
Manymore Films Distribution
Release date: 27.10.2023
Slovakia
Association of the Slovak film clubs ASFK Distribution
Release date: 11.05.2023
Sweden
Manymore Films Distribution
Switzerland
Frenetic Films Distribution
Release date: 14.10.2021
United Arab Emirates
MAD Solutions Distribution
Release date: 01.12.2021
United States
Menemsha Films Distribution
Release date: 01.12.2021

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