Hiner Saleem

Regisseur, Schrijver, Acteur, Producer, Componist

9 maart 1964 (62 years)
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, Vodka Lemon, released in 2003, won the San Marco Prize at the Venice Film Festival. He wrote and directed all three. He was honored with the prestigious title Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by French Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres in 2005. His memoirs titled My Father's Rifle has been published in French, English, Greek and Tamil.

His 2013 film My Sweet Pepper Land was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. He was nominated for the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in Directing for this film.

Known For

  • Tight Dress
    Tight Dress2016
  • Vodka Lemon
    Vodka Lemon2003
  • My Sweet Pepper Land
    My Sweet Pepper Land2014
  • Goodnight Soldier
    Goodnight Soldier2022
  • Kilometer Zero
    Kilometer Zero2005
  • Si tu meurs, je te tue
    Si tu meurs, je te tue2011
  • Lady Winsley
    Lady Winsley2019
  • Dol
    Dol2007
  • Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
    Beneath the Rooftops of Paris2007
  • Après la chute
    Après la chute2009

Cinematografie

2013
My Sweet Pepper Land · as The Photographer
2011
Si tu meurs, je te tue · as Le Patron De La Sandwicherie
2003
Vodka Lemon · as Homme Piano

2022
2013
My Sweet Pepper Land · as Co-Producer
2009
2007
2005
Kilometer Zero · as Executive Producer

2013
My Sweet Pepper Land · as Dialogue