Hiner Saleem

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1964-03-09 (60 years old)

Place of Birth Duhok, Iraq

Also Known As هونه‌ر سەلیم

Hiner Saleem

Biography

Huner Saleem (Kurdish: هونه‌ر سەلیم), also transliterated as Huner Salim, (born 9 March 1964), is an Iraqi–Kurdish film director. He was born in the town of Aqrah (Akre) 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, Greek and Tamil. His 2013 film My Sweet Pepper Land was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. He was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in Directing for this film.

Known For

Director

2022
Goodnight, Soldier

as Director

2019
2016
Tight Dress

as Director

2014
2005
Kilometer Zero

as Director

2003
Vodka Lemon

as Director

2000
Beyond Our Dreams

as Director

Writer

2022
Goodnight, Soldier

as Screenplay

2016
Tight Dress

as Writer

2014
2014
My Sweet Pepper Land

as Screenplay

2014
2011
2005
Kilometer Zero

as Writer

2003
Vodka Lemon

as Writer

Producer

2022
Goodnight, Soldier

as Producer

2014
My Sweet Pepper Land

as Co-Producer

2005
Kilometer Zero

as Executive Producer

2005
Kilometer Zero

as Producer

Actor

2014
My Sweet Pepper Land

as The Photographer

2011
If You Die, I'll Kill You

as Le patron de la sandwicherie