Hogir Hirori Explained

Hogir Hirori
Birth Date:May 7, 1980
Birth Place:Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Notable Works:The Deminer, Sabaya
Awards:Guldbagge Awards 2021, Sundance Film Festival 2021.

Hogir Hirori (born May 7, 1980, in Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq) is a Kurdish-Swedish film director, known for his award-winning documentaries, The Deminer 2017, about a Kurdish disarmer, and Sabaya 2021, about the liberation of enslaved Yazidi women from the terrorist sect IS.

The film Sabaya won the Guldbagge Awards 2021, and the director's award 2021 at Sundance Film Festival.[1] It has been criticized for not being strictly documentary, scenes are arranged with women who did not want to be in the film.[2] [3]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sundance Film Festival 2021 ..
  2. News: Sabaya in The New York Times.. The New York Times . 26 September 2021 . Arraf . Jane . Khaleel . Sangar .
  3. Web site: Statement by the director concerning the Sabaya controversy..