Hawar, Our Banished Children
Hawar, Our Banished Children
International Competition
In 2014, thousands of Yazidi women were kidnapped by Daesh, and reduced to sexual slavery. Upon her release, “Ana” was forced to abandon the baby she had as a result of the rapes she suffered. All children born out of jihadist rape are considered “Daesh bastards” and are rejected by the Yazidi community. After a four-year separation, “Ana” secretly crosses Kurdistan to see her daughter again. She is the first Yazidi mother-survivor to break omerta.
Gallery
Pascale Bourgaux
Pascale Bourgaux has covered all of the conflicts and crises in the Middle East in recent years. She has won numerous international awards for her reports, documentaries and books in Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan.
Screenings
Friday, 24 November 6:30PM
Toldi - Big Hall
Monday, 27 November 6:45PM
Corvin - Radványi
Belgium, Switzerland
2023
73min
Kurdish, English, Arabic
Hungarian Premiere
Director
Pascale Bourgaux
Producer
Isabelle Truc
Elisa Garbar
Editor
Sophie Vercruysse
Cinematographer
Mohammad Shaikhow
Sound
Marianne Roussy
Pierre Dozin
Music
Nicolas Rabaeus
Distribution info
CAT&Docs Maëlle Guenegues maelle@catndocs.com
Festivals and Awards
Visions du Réel 2023