# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/huner-saleem
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:27:20.832Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/huner-saleem"
name: "Huner Saleem"
slug: "huner-saleem"
description: "Huner Saleem, also transliterated as Huner Salim,, 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."
tagline: "Iraqi film director of Kurdish origin"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Huner_Sel%C3%AEm_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-03-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.48355066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0757954/"
    handle:    "nm0757954"
sources:
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    title: "辛納·薩林姆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هونر سليم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هونر سليم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ھونەر سەلیم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huner_Saleem"
    title: "Huner Saleem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huner_Saleem"
    title: "Huner Saleem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huner_Saleem"
    title: "Huner Saleem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85"
    title: "هنر سلیم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiner_Saleem"
    title: "Hiner Saleem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80_%D5%8D%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%A5%D5%B4"
    title: "Հիներ Սալեեմ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Huner Selîm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هینر سلیم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huner_Saleem"
    title: "Huner Saleem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%BC%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Салеем, Хинер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCner_Salim"
    title: "Hüner Salim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1395708"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump