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My Lost Country

My Lost Country

Original Title: Baladi aldaia

  • Film
  • 2022
  • 1h 34m
  • Released

Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin has spent much of his life in involuntary exile. His daughter, Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez, has constructed a loving film portrait of her father, and an elegy for a homeland to which they can never return—partly because it has changed so much, and partly because it was perhaps always more a concept than a reality.

  • Directing Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez
  • Writing Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez
  • Starring Ishtar Yasin GutiérrezMohsen Sadoon YasinDeyar Sadoon Yasin
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Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin has spent much of his life in involuntary exile. His daughter, Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez, has constructed a loving film portrait of her father, and an elegy for a homeland to which they can never return—partly because it has changed so much, and partly because it was perhaps always more a concept than a reality.

IDFA 2022 | Trailer | My Lost Country

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Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez Self
Mohsen Sadoon Yasin Self
Deyar Sadoon Yasin Self
Salman Sadoon Yasin Self
Iaqin Radwan Self
Nicte Robles Self
Mostafa Basil Self
  • Directing Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez
  • Writing Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez
  • Cinematography Yadira Andrade VioscaOmeed KhalidMedoo AliPablo Antonio FuenzalidaIshtar Yasin Gutiérrez
  • Editing Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez
  • Production Ishtar Yasin GutiérrezHala LoftyOmeed KhalidRod Sáez ChávezSoledad Cáceres
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