THE BEEKEEPER

Subtitles:
English

Director:
Mano Khalil

Producer:
Frame Film / Mano Khalil

Country:
Switzerland

Languages:
German, Kurdish

After OUR GARDEN OF EDEN, Mano Khalil tells the touching story in THE BEEKEEPER
Story of Ibrahim Gezer. Ibrahim Gezer has lost everything in his Kurdish homeland: his wife, two of his own children and, with its over five hundred bee colonies, also the basis of life.
All he has left is his love for bees and his unshakable trust in people. After a long and difficult odyssey, Ibrahim Gezer draws inspiration Switzerland finds new hope and thanks to his passion for beekeeping and life back.

Mano Khalil, Cameraman, director, and screenwriter Mano Khalil was born in 1964 in Qamishli, western Kurdistan. He studied History and Law at the University of Damascus from 1981 to 1984 and the art of directing in the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts at Prague University in Czechoslovakia from 1987 to 1994. After completing his studies, he first worked as an independent freelance cameraman for Czech television and later in Slovakia. Khalil has been living in Switzerland since 1996 and founded the Frame Film company in 2012. In 1998, he directed his first film called Triumph of Iron using simple techniques and a low cost of only 66 Swiss francs. In 2000, this film was awarded The Solothurn Film Festival of Switzerland and was nominated for the Swiss Film Award that was broadcast on official Swiss television that year. Before Triumph of Iron, Khalil directed and produced a number of documentaries. The documentary film Al Anfal: In the Name of Allah, Baath and Saddam (Al-Anfal – im Namen von Allah, Baath und Saddam), which Mano produced for Swiss TV in 2005, was an effective reason to introduce the crime of the Anfal genocide to European audiences. Since then he has made many feature and short films.