- Hiner Saleem
Hiner Saleem, also transliterated as Hiner Salim, (
1964 - ), is aIraqi -Kurdishfilm director . He was born in the town ofAqrah inIraqi Kurdistan . He leftIraq at the age of 17, and soon made his way toItaly , where he completed school and attended university. Later on, he moved toFrance where he lives now. In1992 , after theFirst Gulf War , he filmed undercover the living conditions of IraqiKurds . This footage was shown at theVenice Film Festival . In1998 , he made his first movie, "Vive la marie ... et la liberation du Kurdistan". His second, "Passeurs de rêves", came out in2000 , and his third film,Vodka Lemon , released in2003 , won the "San Marco Prize" at the Venice Film Festival [http://www.labiennale.org/it/cinema/storia/2000/it/4554.1.html] . He wrote and directed all three. He was honored with the prestigious title "Chevalier des Arts et Lettres" by French Minister of CultureRenaud Donnedieu de Vabres in2005 . His memoirs titled "My Father's Rifle " has been published in French and English.Filmography as director, writer
#Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan (1997)
#Passeurs de rêves (2000) (English Title: Beyond Our Dreams)
#Absolitude (2001) (TV)
#Vodka Lemon (2003)
#Kilomètre zéro (2005)
#Dol (2007)
#Les Toits de Paris (2007) (English Title: Beneath the Rooftops of Paris)Books
#, Translated from French by "Catherine Temerson", 112 pp., Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Jan. 2005, ISBN 0-374-21693-2.
References
*
* [http://www.festival-cannes.fr/perso/index.php?langue=6002&personne=4245676 Hiner Saleem] ,Cannes Film Festival .
* [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2078/is_2_48/ai_n8692081 Hiner Saleem, Literary Review, Winter 2005] .
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0374216932/ My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan] .
* [http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/12/news/saleem.php The Shows: Making a movie in and on Iraq, International Herald Tribune] , May 2005.
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.