
Known for
Directing
Born
March 9, 1964 (age 62)
Birthplace
Duhok, Iraq
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...
2022
Director, Screenplay, Producer
2019
Director, Writer
2016
Director, Writer
2014
as The Photographer, Dialogue, Co-Producer, Director, Screenplay, Writer
2011
as Le patron de la sandwicherie, Director, Screenplay
2009
Director, Writer
2007
Director, Writer
2007
Director, Writer
2005
Executive Producer, Producer, Director, Writer
2003
Director, Writer
2000
Director
1998
Director, Writer