I am not saying that the Kurds are angels, but they have suffered too much. These people have a right to live in their country. The right just to be ….

If my friends are going to the mountains with guns to fight, I will continue that fight, not with guns but with a camera..

With fiction, you are creating an imaginary world. And it can be a very mechanical process. In a fictional film, you create the characters who become….

Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that I can say something through….

In all my documentaries, I have great respect for the people I work with. Really, I love them. And it's very important for me that when I finish a mo….

After school, I went to Damascus to study law and history, which I didn't really like. I didn't like history, in particular. In Syria, the regime was….

It's difficult to make movies. For me it was easier, as a refugee in Switzerland, to make documentary films, because I didn't need a lot of money for….

When I see that people are touched, and they feel solidarity with him, I say to myself, "I made a little change.".

Even if you make a movie about a criminal locked up in prison, you may not support him as a criminal, but you have to like him on some level. You hav….

Now the world believes in Kurds, as they have become partners in that region. The West doesn't believe in the Iraqi government - not in Maliki before….

The problem of ISIS is not recent. Ever since the Second World War, people in this region have been, and are today, living under brutal dictatorships….

Sitting in the darkness of the cinema, I got to see another world. This imaginary world was a refuge for many of us. Of course, the films were contro….

Most people look at a feature film and say, "It's just a movie." For me there is no border or wall between fiction and documentary filmmaking. In doc….

I dream about going back, but I know that it isn't easy. Thirty years of being in Europe has changed my life. I am not the Kurd from Syria anymore as….