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.

Q&A Session with the director on 10 June 2023

Hala Lotfy is an Egyptian director and producer, and The founder of Hassala Films. She produced more than ten tittles (feature and documentary to include: Um Ghayeb by Nadine Salib,Exterior/ night by Ahmad Abdalla, and lately Light Upon Light by the Danish director Christian Suhr: CPH: DOX 2022).  received the encouragement state award for production in 2016.