Hogir Hirori (born May 7, 1980, in Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq) is a Kurdish-Swedish film director, known for his award-winning documentaries, The Deminer 2017, about a Kurdish disarmer, and Sabaya 2021, about the liberation of enslaved Yazidi women from the terrorist sect IS.
Hogir Hirori | |
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 Hogir Hirori 2020. | |
| Born | May 7, 1980 Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq |
| Notable work | The Deminer, Sabaya |
| Awards | Guldbagge Awards 2021, Sundance Film Festival 2021. |
The film Sabaya won the Guldbagge Awards 2021, and the director's award 2021 at Sundance Film Festival.[1] It has been criticized for not being strictly documentary, scenes are arranged with women who did not want to be in the film.[2][3]
Filmography
edit- Sabaya (2021)
- The Deminer (2017)
- The girl who saved my life (2016)
- Victims of IS (2014)
- Hewa strongest in Sweden (2007)
References
edit- ^ "Sundance Film Festival 2021 ".
- ^ Arraf, Jane; Khaleel, Sangar (26 September 2021). "Sabaya in The New York Times". The New York Times.
- ^ "Statement by the director concerning the Sabaya controversy".