Hawar, nos enfants bannis

Hawar, our banished children

Pascale Bourgaux

Documentaire . 75' . België, Zwitserland . 2023 . / ST :

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.

Visions Du Réel Festival 2023 – Nationale Competitie

STARRING

WRITER

Pascale Bourgaux

Mohammad Shaikow

DIRECTOR

Pascale Bourgaux

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Mohammad Shaikow

SOUND

Pierre Dozin

Marianne Roussy

FILM EDITING

Sophie Vercruysse

MUSIC

Nicolas Rabaeus

PRODUCTION

Iota Production

DISTRIBUTION

Iota Distribution

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.