About Hogir Hirori
Born 1980. Hogir Hirori is a film director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and film editor.
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.
The film Sabaya won the Guldbagge Awards 2021, and the director's award 2021 at Sundance Film Festival. It has been criticized for not being strictly documentary, scenes are arranged with women who did not want to be in the film.
Filmography Sabaya (2021) The Deminer (2017) The girl who saved my life (2016) Victims of IS (2014) Hewa strongest in Sweden (2007)
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director and filmmaker
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Hogir Hirori was born on 7 May 1980 in Kurdistan.
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Hogir Hirori is a film director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and film editor.
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