Swiss-Kurdish director Mano Khalil’s “Neighbours” is a cinematically stunning, deeply unsettling film that is at once brutal and satiric, and at moments even magical. The central figure is six-year-old Sero (Serhed Khalil) and the story is seen through his trusting and innocent eyes. Loosely inspired by the director’s own childhood experiences, the movie, with its vivid crosscurrents and unlikely juxtapositions, brings Fellini to mind. The narrative is bookended in a Syrian refugee camp where a Kurdish family has fled the country’s violence and is awaiting word from someone whom they’ve contacted. We don’t know who the person is, though a...
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