Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez (; born 1968) is a Soviet-born Iraqi Chilean-Costa Rican director, screenwriter, producer and actress based in Mexico. In 2008, Yasin made her directorial debut with the feature film The Path ().
Biography 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 () in 2008. In 2012, Gutiérrez settled in Mexico.
Filmography +YearTitleTypeDirectorWriterActorProducerEditorNotesRef(s) 1989 Full Moon () Feature Directed by Naana Chankova 2000 Florence of the deep rivers and the big sharks () Short 2005 The happy table () Short documentary Dedicated to Antonio Cuevas 2007 The Path () Feature 2009 What's going on? Feature Directed by Jocelyne Saab 2010 The Invisibles ( Documentary 2014 Apocalypse of our Time () Documentary 2018 Two Fridas () Feature 2022 My Lost Country Documentary Self
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