Switzerland, Kurdistan 2021Language:Arabic, Hebrew, KurdishSubtitles:English & GermanDirector:Mano KhalilWriter:Mano KhalilCinematographer:Stéphane KuthyEditor:Thomas BachmannMusic:Mario BatkovicSound:Marcel FinkWith:Serhed Khalil, Jalal Altawil, Jay Abdo, Tuna Dwek, Zirek , Bangen Ali, Heval Naif, Jiyan Armanc, Naimeh Dhaher, Ismail ZagrosProducer:Mano KhalilProduction Company:Frame FilmDistributor:barnsteiner-film125 min, Colour, DCP

In a Syrian border village in the early 1980s, six-year-old Sero experiences his first year at school. He plays cheeky pranks with his classmates, dreams of a television so he can finally watch cartoons, and at the same time has to experience how the adults around him are increasingly crushed by nationalist despotism and violence. A new teacher has arrived to turn the Kurdish children into staunch pan-Arab comrades. He bans the Kurdish language with his baton, orders the worship of Assad and preaches hatred of the Jews, the Zionist archenemies. The lessons confuse Sero, because he loves his Jewish neighbours very much.

Director's Biography:Swiss-Kurdish filmmaker, born 1964 in Syria, lives in Bern. Studied law and history in Damascus, then directing at the Film and Television Academy in former Czechoslovakia. Founded production company Frame Film in Bern in 2012.

Director's Filmography:
2018 HAFIS & MARA (DOKU)
2016 DIE SCHWALBE
2013 DER IMKER (DOKU)
2011 UNSER GARTEN EDEN (DOKU)