THE SWALLOW
Style: Feature film
Genre: Drama
Year: 2016
Country: Switzerland
Language: English, German, Kurdish
Duration: 102 min
Production: Frame Film, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), ARTE
Director: Mano Khalil
Screenplay: Mano Khalil, Michael Sauter, Daniel Kasparis
Producers: Tunje Burns, Mano Khalil
Operator: Revan Raduin
Music: Mario Batkovic
Starring: Manon Pfrunder, Ismail Zagros, Dejin Jamil, Bangen Ali
MANO KHALIL
Mano Khalil was born in 1964 in Qamishli, Syria. In 1986 he graduated from the Faculty of History and Law at the University of Damascus in Syria, and in 1987 he graduated from the Film Academy in Czechoslovakia. Since 1988, he began to shoot his first documentaries, such as “My Pain, My Hope” (1989), “Colored Dreams” (2003) and others. “The Place Where God Sleeps” is the only film directed by Khalil in Syria in 1993 about the life of members of the Kurdish community. This picture won first prize at the Augsburg Film Festival in Germany, but after that he and his family were forced to flee from Syria to Switzerland due to persecution. In 2012, Khalil founded Frame Film in Bern and continues to produce documentaries - The Beekeeper (2013), Hafiz and Mara (2018). And in 2016 his first feature film "Swallow" was released, which was filmed in Iraqi Kurdistan.