In 2014, Daesh took control of Northern Iraq, home to the Yazidi community. They separated families, killing the men and kidnapping the women and girls, who were then “offered” to the jihad fighters. The reporter and filmmaker Pascale Bourgaux tells the story of the children born during this period of captivity, “the bastards of Daesh”, shedding light on this human tragedy.

Vision du réel 2023 (CH) – Sélection officielle

Brussels international film festival 2023 (BE) - Sélection officielle

Verzio film festival 2023 (CH) - Sélection officielle

FIPADOC 2024 (FR) – Sélection officielle

Terraviva Film Festival 2024 (IT)- Sélection officielle

FIFHD 2024 (CH)- Sélection officielle

Magritte du cinéma 2024 (BE) – présélectionné

Sarajevo Warm festival 2024 (BA)- Sélection officielle

Primed 2024 (FR) – Mention spécial

FIFDH 2024 (CH) ) - Sélection officielle

Human Rights Films Festival 2024 (CH) - Sélection officielle

Festival International de Neuchâtel-Prix Farel 24 (FR) – 1er prix du documentaire

Festival le grand Bivouac 2024 (FR) / FIGRA 2025 (FR) – compétition internationale

Festival MujerDoc 2025 ( ESP) – Prix du meilleur documentaire.

World premiere at the 54th edition of the International Film Festival Visions du Réel, which took place from 21 to 30 April 2023 in Nyon, Switzerland.

FIPADOC 2024 : selected in the Women in the Media Awards category, from 19 to 27 January
https://fipadoc.com/fr/laureat/prix-pour-les-femmes-dans-les-medias-2024

FIFDH, Impact days: pitching on 12 March 2024.

https://fifdh.org/pro/catalogue/2024/hawar-our-banished-children/

Radio

RTS interview Pascale Bourgaux (French) : https://www.rts.ch/audio-podcast/2023/audio/les-enfants-bannis-des-yezidis-interview-de-pascale-bourgaux-26120519.html

Presse écrite & web

Steve Kopian - USA : http://www.unseenfilms.net/2023/04/hawar-our-banished-children-visions-du.html

Zoé Penelle - Belgium : https://www.lesoir.be/509042/article/2023-04-23/hawar-nos-enfants-bannis-une-mere-yezidie-brise-lomerta

Chris Jones - USA : https://ohmr.themailnewspapers.com/resilience-and-strength-a-story-of-yazidi-women-rising-above-adversity/

Mark Adams - UK : https://businessdoceurope.com/visions-du-reel-review-hawar-our-banished-children-by-pascale-bourgaux/

Ilaria Falcone - Italy : https://www.nonsolocinema.com/hawar-our-banished-children-di-pascale-bourgaux.html

Riccardo Gallegos - Mexique : https://laestatuilla.com/criticas/critica-de-hawar-our-banished-children-visions-du-reel-2023/

TELERAMA - France : https://www.telerama.fr/television/fipadoc-smoke-sauna-sisterhood-et-un-pasteur-grand-prix-et-tout-le-palmares-de-l-edition-2024-7019054.php

LA LIBRE - France : https://www.lalibre.be/dernieres-depeches/2024/01/26/le-documentaire-belge-hawar-nos-enfants-bannis-prime-au-fipadoc-a-biarritz-5ASOKXBPIRD4NB6WTRAYYM4MWA/

RTL - France : https://www.rtl.be/actu/magazine/culture/le-documentaire-belge-hawar-nos-enfants-bannis-prime-au-fipadoc-biarritz/2024-01-26/article/631219

DH - France : https://www.dhnet.be/dernieres-depeches/2024/01/26/le-documentaire-belge-hawar-nos-enfants-bannis-prime-au-fipadoc-a-biarritz-WONS4HTSJRC5NGTSYE3CONWKKM/

MEDIA+ - France https://www.lemediaplus.com/tv5monde-rtbf-hawar-nos-enfants-bannis-nomme-au-fipadoc-et-aux-magritte/

Divers

Various articles, including some above: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/a53mapt9xqimb6bw498hr/AE87nZHMCKd-5O6KKEedwG0?rlkey=22e58vcdwy1u67jrd7639mya7&dl=0