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 "real people" when facing the camera. When you stop shooting, they change their costumes and become someone else. And people tend to believe in documentary more than fiction. Even if the fiction is based on a true story, everybody will say, "Oh, they're only actors."
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… - Mano Khalil
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…
- Mano Khalil
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 … - Mano Khalil
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. - Mano Khalil
If my friends are going to the mountains with guns to fight, I will continue that fight, not with guns but with a camera.
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… - Mano Khalil
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…
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… - Mano Khalil
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…
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… - Mano Khalil
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…
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… - Mano Khalil
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…
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… - Mano Khalil
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…
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… - Mano Khalil
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…
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