My Lost Country
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.
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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.
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- Release date
- Nov 12, 2022
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
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- Language
- Arabic, Spanish
- Country
- Chile, Costa Rica
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