Hawar, nos enfants bannis

Hawar, our banished children

Pascale Bourgaux

01.07 UGC De Brouckère 19:15 TICKETS

02.07 UGC De Brouckère 15:00 TICKETS

Documentary . 75' . Belgium, Switzerland . 2023 . AR / ST : FR-NL-EN

In 2014, thousands of Yazidi women are kidnapped by Daech and reduced to sexual slavery. Upon her realease, Ana is forced to abandond the baby she had as a result of being raped. Considered as “bastards”, all children born from the rapes were rejected from the Yazidi comunity. After four years of separation, “Ana” crosses Kurdistan, in secret, to see her daughter Marya.

★ In the presence of director Pascale Bourgaux | 🌿 Festival Visions Du Réel 2023 – Compétition Nationale

STARRING

WRITER

Pascale Bourgaux

Mohammad Shaikhow

DIRECTOR

Pascale Bourgaux

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Mohammad Shaikhow

SOUND

Marianne Roussy

Pierre Dozin

FILM EDITING

Sophie Vercruysse

MUSIC

Nicolas Rabaeus

PRODUCTION

Iota Production

DISTRIBUTION

Iota Distribution

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Pascale Bourgaux

Pascale Bourgaux is a film director, author and war reporter. She has covered most of the conflicts and crises of recent years in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya and Afghanistan. She has won several international awards for her films and books.
Her latest film “Hawar, our bannished children” (2023) is the result of eight years of investigation and filming in Iraqi and Syrian Kurdistan. It is the first documentary to break the taboo of Yazidi mothers searching for their children, born of rape by jihadists.