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My Lost Country

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“My lost country” rescues the memory of the Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin, through the eyes of Ishtar, his daughter, who was raised in Latin America. Mohsen married the Chilean dancer, Elena Gutiérrez, in Baghdad. He was a student and professor at the theater department of the Baghdad Institute of Fine Arts. During Saddam's dictatorship, his brother Rassul was imprisoned. Most of his family was scattered around the world. He couldn’t return to live in Iraq, his land. He was a humanist. His theater was political. In the film, there is an emotional thread, with hopes, desires, dreams and the love between a father and daughter, crossed by historical, political and social events. Is a knitting, where also myths become alive. A bridge that unites continents and times. It seeks to open our eyes and reveal that we are closer than it appears, and have more in common than we imagine.

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David Walsh World Socialist Web Site 05/27/2023
4/4
My Lost Country is a moving and poetically evocative film ... A piece of autobiography ... the work is intended ... as “an act of resistance” against the imperialist devastation of Iraqi culture and society. Go to Full Review Neil Young Screen International 11/23/2022
Tender and empathetic on this personal level, with several particularly effective examples of fluent montage, the film gains extra relevance as a tribute to the stoic humanism of individuals like Mohsen Yasin. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez

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Synopsis “My lost country” rescues the memory of the Iraqi theater director Mohsen Sadoon Yasin, through the eyes of Ishtar, his daughter, who was raised in Latin America. Mohsen married the Chilean dancer, Elena Gutiérrez, in Baghdad. He was a student and professor at the theater department of the Baghdad Institute of Fine Arts. During Saddam's dictatorship, his brother Rassul was imprisoned. Most of his family was scattered around the world. He couldn’t return to live in Iraq, his land. He was a humanist. His theater was political. In the film, there is an emotional thread, with hopes, desires, dreams and the love between a father and daughter, crossed by historical, political and social events. Is a knitting, where also myths become alive. A bridge that unites continents and times. It seeks to open our eyes and reveal that we are closer than it appears, and have more in common than we imagine.
Director
Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez
Producer
Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez
Genre
Biography, Documentary
Original Language
Spanish
Runtime
1h 34m