HAWAR, our banished children
Directed by Pascale Bourgaux
Soon to be filmed
Feature film | Fiction | 74min
Co-production with Belgium
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.
Vision du réel 2023 (CH) – Sélection officielle
Brussels international film festival 2023 (BE) - Sélection officielle
Verzio film festival 2023 (CH) - Sélection officielle
FIPADOC 2024 (FR) – Sélection officielle
Terraviva Film Festival 2024 (IT)- Sélection officielle
FIFHD 2024 (CH)- Sélection officielle
Magritte du cinéma 2024 (BE) – présélectionné
Sarajevo Warm festival 2024 (BA)- Sélection officielle
Primed 2024 (FR) – Mention spécial
FIFDH 2024 (CH) ) - Sélection officielle
Human Rights Films Festival 2024 (CH) - Sélection officielle
Festival International de Neuchâtel-Prix Farel 24 (FR) – 1er prix du documentaire
Festival le grand Bivouac 2024 (FR) / FIGRA 2025 (FR) – compétition internationale
Festival MujerDoc 2025 ( ESP) – Prix du meilleur documentaire.
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.
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
FIFDH, Impact days: pitching on 12 March 2024.
https://fifdh.org/pro/catalogue/2024/hawar-our-banished-children/
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/
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