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

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

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

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

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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Mano Khalil

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…

- Mano Khalil