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person_profile-Hiner Saleem

Hiner Saleem Age: 60

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Hiner Saleem

Date of Birth:

Mar 09, 1964

Country of birth:

Iraq

Biography of

Hiner Saleem

    Huner Saleem (Kurdish: هونه‌ر سەلیم), also transliterated as Huner Salim, (born 9 March 1964), is an Iraqi–Kurdish film director. He was born in the town of Aqrah (Akre) in Iraqi Kurdistan. He left Iraq at the age of 17, and soon made his way to Italy, where he completed school and attended university. Later on, he moved to France where he lives now. In 1992, after the First Gulf War, he filmed undercover the living conditions of Iraqi Kurds. This footage was shown at the Venice Film Festival. In 1998, he made his first movie, Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan. His second, Passeurs de rêves, came out in 2000, and his third film, Vodka Lemon, released in 2003, won the San Marco Prize at the Venice Film Festival. He wrote and directed all three. He was honored with the prestigious title Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by French Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres in 2005. His memoirs titled My Father's Rifle has been published in French, English, Greek and Tamil.

    His 2013 film My Sweet Pepper Land was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. He was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in Directing for this film.

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Hiner Saleem

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Filmography of

Hiner Saleem

Found 9 Movies in total

... 2022

... 2019

My Sweet Pepper Land

The Photographer ( Actor )

Writer

... 2014

If You Die, I'll Kill You

Le patron de la sandwicherie ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2011

... 2007

... 2007

... 2005

... 2003

... 2000