My Lost Country

Directed by  Ishtar Yasin Guttierrez
Documentary
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Egypt
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2022
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Arabic
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96 minutes

Filmmaker Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez uses family photographs, extracts from letters and audio recordings to construct a loving portrait of her exiled theater director father Mohsen Sadoon Yasin, and an elegy to their lost homeland of Iraq.

• Outstanding Artistic Contribution IDFA 2022

Crew

Writer and Director – Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez

Producer – Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez & Hala Lotfy

Director of Photography – Medoo Ali, Pablo Antonio Fuenzalida & Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez

Editor – Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez


Composers – Hector Aguilar, Mustafa Basil, Rafael Cheuquelaf, Diego Diaz & Khalid Rawi