HAWAR, our banished children

Directed by Pascale Bourgaux

Soon to be filmed

Feature film | Fiction | 74min

Co-production with Belgium

Synopsis

In 2014, Daesh took control of Northern Iraq, home to the Yazidi community. They separated families, killing the men and kidnapping the women and girls, who were then “offered” to the jihad fighters. The reporter and filmmaker Pascale Bourgaux tells the story of the children born during this period of captivity, “the bastards of Daesh”, shedding light on this human tragedy.

Trailer
Festivals & Screenings

PRIX FAREL 2024 from November 15 to 17, 2024

Film Festival Diritti Umani Lugano, October 10-20, 2024

World premiere at the 54th edition of the International Film Festival Visions du Réel, which took place from 21 to 30 April 2023 in Nyon, Switzerland.

Screenings :

Saturday April 22 at 3:30pm - Usine à Gaz 1, in presence of the director

Tuesday 25 April at 6pm - Théâtre de Grand-Champ, Gland

FIPADOC 2024 : selected in the Women in the Media Awards category, from 19 to 27 January
https://fipadoc.com/fr/laureat/prix-pour-les-femmes-dans-les-medias-2024

22.01.2024 at 11:45am - LE ROYAL SALLE 3

25.01.2024 at 12pm - GARE DU MIDI - ATALAYA

27.01.2024 at 2pm - BELLEVUE AUDITORIUM

FIFDH, Impact days: pitching on 12 March 2024.

https://fifdh.org/pro/catalogue/2024/hawar-our-banished-children/

Press

Radio

RTS interview Pascale Bourgaux (French) : https://www.rts.ch/audio-podcast/2023/audio/les-enfants-bannis-des-yezidis-interview-de-pascale-bourgaux-26120519.html

Presse écrite & web

Steve Kopian - USA : http://www.unseenfilms.net/2023/04/hawar-our-banished-children-visions-du.html

Zoé Penelle - Belgium : https://www.lesoir.be/509042/article/2023-04-23/hawar-nos-enfants-bannis-une-mere-yezidie-brise-lomerta

Chris Jones - USA : https://ohmr.themailnewspapers.com/resilience-and-strength-a-story-of-yazidi-women-rising-above-adversity/

Mark Adams - UK : https://businessdoceurope.com/visions-du-reel-review-hawar-our-banished-children-by-pascale-bourgaux/

Ilaria Falcone - Italy : https://www.nonsolocinema.com/hawar-our-banished-children-di-pascale-bourgaux.html

Riccardo Gallegos - Mexique : https://laestatuilla.com/criticas/critica-de-hawar-our-banished-children-visions-du-reel-2023/

TELERAMA - France : https://www.telerama.fr/television/fipadoc-smoke-sauna-sisterhood-et-un-pasteur-grand-prix-et-tout-le-palmares-de-l-edition-2024-7019054.php

LA LIBRE - France : https://www.lalibre.be/dernieres-depeches/2024/01/26/le-documentaire-belge-hawar-nos-enfants-bannis-prime-au-fipadoc-a-biarritz-5ASOKXBPIRD4NB6WTRAYYM4MWA/

RTL - France : https://www.rtl.be/actu/magazine/culture/le-documentaire-belge-hawar-nos-enfants-bannis-prime-au-fipadoc-biarritz/2024-01-26/article/631219

DH - France : https://www.dhnet.be/dernieres-depeches/2024/01/26/le-documentaire-belge-hawar-nos-enfants-bannis-prime-au-fipadoc-a-biarritz-WONS4HTSJRC5NGTSYE3CONWKKM/

MEDIA+ - France https://www.lemediaplus.com/tv5monde-rtbf-hawar-nos-enfants-bannis-nomme-au-fipadoc-et-aux-magritte/

Divers

Various articles, including some above: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/a53mapt9xqimb6bw498hr/AE87nZHMCKd-5O6KKEedwG0?rlkey=22e58vcdwy1u67jrd7639mya7&dl=0