Hogir Hirori

Hogir Hirori
Hogir Hirori 2020.
Born	May 7, 1980 Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Notable work	The Deminer, Sabaya
Awards	Guldbagge Awards 2021, Sundance Film Festival 2021.

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.

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

• Sabaya (2021)
• The Deminer (2017)
• The girl who saved my life (2016)
• Victims of IS (2014)
• Hewa strongest in Sweden (2007)

References

1. "Sundance Film Festival 2021 ".
2. Arraf, Jane; Khaleel, Sangar (26 September 2021). "Sabaya in The New York Times". The New York Times.
3. "Statement by the director concerning the Sabaya controversy".

External links

• Hogir Hirori on IMDB.