HAWAR, our banished children
Directed by Pascale Bourgaux
Soon to be filmed
Feature film | Fiction | 74min
Co-production with Belgium
Ana crosses Kurdistan in secret to see her daughter Marya again, whom she hasn’t seen for four years. Like many Yazidi women, a religious minority in Iraq, Ana was abducted by ISIS in 2014. She survived and returned to her community, but in order to be accepted, she was forced to give up her child born of the jihadists’ rapes.
Pre-premiere screenings in the presence of the director and co-writer:
Friday, November 7 at 6:30 p.m. – Cinélux, Geneva, in the presence of the director and co-writer
Saturday, November 8 at 6:30 p.m. – Cinéma Rex, Fribourg, in the presence of the director and co-writer
Sunday, November 9 at 11:00 a.m. – Cinéma Astor, Vevey, in the presence of the director and co-writer
Sunday, November 9 at 6:00 p.m. – Le Cinématographe, Lausanne, in the presence of the director and co-writer
Friday, November 14 at 8:00 p.m. – Cinema d’Oron, Oron, in the presence of producer Elisa Garbar
Sunday, November 16 at 5:30 p.m. – Cinéma Royal, Sainte-Croix, screening followed by a round table
Wednesday, December 3 at 8:00 p.m. – Cinéma La Bobine, Vallée de Joux, screening followed by a round table
IN GERMAN-SPEAKING SWITZERLAND
Saturday, November 15 at 4:40 p.m. – Tuesday, November 18 at 7:00 p.m. – Friday, November 28 at 3:40 p.m. – at Cinema Kinok, St. Gallen
Contact et infos: distrib@louiseproductions.ch
FESTIVALS
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 spéciale
FIFDH 2024 (CH) – Sélection officielle
Human Rights Films Festival 2024 (CH) – Sélection officielle
Festival International de Neuchâtel-Prix Farel 24 (FR) – Premier prix du documentaire
Festival le grand Bivouac 2024 (FR) / FIGRA 2025 (FR) – Compétition internationale
Festival MujerDoc 2025 (ESP) – Prix du meilleur documentaire.
FIPADOC 2024 – Sélectionné dans la catégorie Prix pour les femmes dans les médias, du 19 au 27 janvier.
FIFDH, Impact days – Pitching le 12 mars 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.
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