Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez

• Name — Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez • Native Name — عشتار ياسين جوتيريز • Born — 1968 • Birthplace — Moscow, Soviet Union • Occupation — * Director • screenwriter • producer • actress • Education — Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, 1990 • Mother — Elena Gutiérrez • Relatives — Joaquín Gutiérrez (grandfather) • Website — ishtaryasin.com/

Yasin was born in 1968 in Moscow, Soviet Union (present-day Russia) to Mohsen Sadoon Yasin, an Iraqi theater director, and Elena Gutiérrez, a Chilean-Costa Rican ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the National Dance Company of Costa Rica. Through her mother, Yasin was the granddaughter of the Costa Rican writer Joaquín Gutiérrez. In 1968, the family settled in Chile but fled to Costa Rica following the 1973 coup d'état. From 1979 to 1984, Yasin studied at the Conservatorio de Castella. In 1985, aged 17, Yasin returned to Soviet Union and studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. Yasin graduated with a Masters in 1990. In Costa Rica, Gutiérrez founded the Ámbar Theatre in 1992 and the Astarté Films production company in 1999. In 2004, Gutiérrez had a residency at the Centre d'Écriture Cinématographique in Normandy. Yasin made her directorial debut with the feature film The Path (El Camino) in 2008. In 2012, Gutiérrez settled in Mexico.

• Year — Title — Type — Director — Writer — Actor — Producer — Editor — Notes — Ref(s) • 1989 — Full Moon — Feature — Directed by Naana Chankova • 2000 — Florence of the deep rivers and the big sharks (Florencia de los ríos hondos y los tiburones grandes) — Short • 2005 — The happy table (La mesa feliz) — Short documentary — Dedicated to Antonio Cuevas • 2007 — The Path (El Camino) — Feature • 2009 — What's going on? — Feature — Directed by Jocelyne Saab • 2010 — The Invisibles (Les Invisibles — Documentary • 2014 — Apocalypse of our Time (Apocalipsis de nuestro tiempo) — Documentary • 2018 — Two Fridas (Dos Fridas) — Feature • 2022 — My Lost Country — Documentary — Self