{"id":13355,"date":"2025-02-01T13:47:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T18:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/?p=13355"},"modified":"2025-03-15T19:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T23:44:18","slug":"neighbors-by-mano-khalil-screening-february-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nykcc.org\/oldsite\/neighbors-by-mano-khalil-screening-february-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mano Khalil’s North American Tour, February 2-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"ManoWe are thrilled to announce that the Kurdish-Swiss filmmaker Mano Khalil<\/strong> will be touring North America with screenings of his acclaimed 2021 film Neighbors<\/em>.<\/p>

The film is based on Khalil’s personal story of growing up Kurdish under the Assad dictatorship. As a Kurdish man native to Syria, he is undertaking the tour to raise awareness of the DAANES (also known as Rojava), currently under attack by Turkish-backed proxy militias and by Turkish drones and air strikes.<\/p>

Synopsis:<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0In a Syrian border village in the early 1980s, little Sero attends school for the first time. A new teacher has arrived with the goal of making strapping Pan-Arabic comrades out of the Kurdish children. To enable paradise to come to earth, he uses the rod to forbid the Kurdish language, orders the veneration of Assad and preaches hate of the \u201cZionist enemy\u201d- the Jews. The lessons upset and confuse Sero because his longtime neighbors are a lovable Jewish family. With a fine sense of humor and satire, the film depicts a childhood which manages to find light moments between dictatorship and dark drama. Little Sero gets involved in dangerous pranks with his friends, and dreams of having a television so he can finally watch cartoons. But he also experiences how the adults around him are increasingly crushed by the despotism, violence and nationalism that surround them. The film was inspired by the director\u2019s personal experiences, and so his bittersweet memories connect the Syrian tragedy to the present.<\/p>

Read a recent review of the film by Lena Streitwieser here<\/a>. Read more about Mano Khalil here<\/a>.<\/p>

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Here is the tentative schedule for \u00a0Khalil’s multicity tour. The schedule is still developing\u2014we will fill in the missing information as we obtain it.<\/p>

New York <\/strong><\/p>

Date: Sunday, February 2, 2025, 2pm
Venue: Village East by Angelika, 181-189 Second Avenue
Hosts: Xeyal Qertel and Kate Bolger
Info: info@nykcc.org
Tickets:\u00a0on sale now at Eventbrite<\/a><\/p>

Los Angeles<\/strong><\/div><\/div>

Date: Sunday, February 9, 2025, 6pm-9pm
Host: Azad Azizyan
Venue: Lumiere Cinema, 9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills
Tickets: here<\/a>
Info: Azizyan.Azad@gmail.com
Sponsors: NYKCC, Kurdish American Cinema Collective, and Kurdish Community of Southern California<\/a><\/p><\/div>

Bloomington, IN\u00a0<\/strong><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025<\/div>
Host: Hewa Khalid<\/div>
Venue: Indiana University, Global International Studies Building, Shreve Auditorium, Room 0001<\/div>
Info: Carl Pearson, pearsonc@iu.edu<\/div>
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Nashville, TN<\/b><\/div>
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2025, 6pm-9pm<\/div>
Panel Q&A: Mano Khalil, Allison Inman, Sina Mirzaei (moderator)<\/div>
Location: Vanderbilt University, Buttrick Hall, Room 103<\/div>
Sponsors: \u00a0Kurdish Culture and Music Association (KCMA), the Department of the Cinema & Media Art, and NIRMA Project<\/div>
Contact: Sina Mirzaei<\/div>
For more info write to: kcmatn@gmail.com<\/div>
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Highland Park, IL<\/strong><\/div>
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2025<\/div>
Venue: Wayfarer Theater<\/div>
Host: Ferhat Imrak<\/div>
Admission: $10<\/div>
Info: info@kurdsofillinois.org<\/div>
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Chicago<\/strong><\/div>
Date: Sunday, February 16, 2025<\/div>
Time: 7pm-10pm<\/div>
Venue: Kurdish Culture Center of Illinois<\/div>
Host: Ferhat Imrak<\/div>
Info: info@kurdsofillinois.org<\/div>
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New York<\/strong><\/div>

Date and time: \u00a0Monday, February 17, 2025, 5pm-8pm
Venue: Jerome Greene Hall, Room 107, Columbia Law School, 435 W. 116th St., NY NY 10027<\/p>

Hosts: Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law Students Human Rights Association, and the Middle Eastern Law Students Association<\/p>

The screening will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A discussion with director Mano Khalil, moderated by R\u00eaz Gard\u00ee, co-managing director of Refugees Seat.<\/p>

Dinner will be provided. Please register<\/a> to help prevent food waste.<\/p><\/div>

Info: Manmeet Kaur Nijjer, mkn2123@columbia.edu<\/p><\/div>

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Don’t miss the screening of Neighbors<\/em> in a city near you!<\/div><\/div>
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