Hogir Hirori

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.

Hogir Hirori
Hogir Hirori 2020.
BornMay 7, 1980
Notable workThe Deminer, Sabaya
AwardsGuldbagge Awards 2021, Sundance Film Festival 2021.

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]

Filmography

  • Sabaya (2021)
  • The Deminer (2017)
  • The girl who saved my life (2016)
  • Victims of IS (2014)
  • Hewa strongest in Sweden (2007)

References

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