Huner Saleem
Film director
1964 –
Who is Huner Saleem?
Huner Saleem, also transliterated as Huner Salim, is an Iraqi–Kurdish film director. He was born in the town of Aqrah 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 and Greek.
His 2013 film My Sweet Pepperland was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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- Born
- Mar 9, 1964
Aqrah - Also known as
- Huner Salim
- Hiner Saleem
- Nationality
- Iraq
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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