Pascale Bourgaux
Director
Hawar: Our Banished Children (2025)
In 2014, in Kurdistan, thousands of Yazidi women are kidnapped by ISIS and reduced to sexual slavery. Most of them become pregnant. Once freed, the surviving mothers are forced by their own community to abandon their children.
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.daughter, imdb.mother, imdb.secret, mdblist.has-trailer
Production Companies: Louise Productions Lausanne, Iota Production
Country: Belgium
Production Countries:
Belgium,
Switzerland
Languages:
Kurdish,
English,
Arabic,
French
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Runtime: 75 min.
Released: Nov. 12, 2025
Status: Released
Certification: 16 / 17+