Hiner Saleem
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1964-03-09 (61 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,...
Acting
2011
as Le patron de la sandwicherie
2014
as The Photographer
Production
2014
as Dialogue
2014
as Co-Producer
2005
as Executive Producer
2005
as Producer
2003
as Director
2005
as Director
2007
as Director
2014
as Director
2007
as Writer
2007
as Director
1998
1998
2014
as Screenplay
2007
as Writer
2011
as Director
2011
as Screenplay
2003
as Writer
2014
as Writer
2019
as Director
2016
as Director
2016
as Writer
2019
as Writer
2000
as Director
2005
as Writer
2022
as Director
2022
as Screenplay
2022
as Producer
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