The Sleeping Child (L'Enfant Endormi)
In contemporary Morocco, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding. She is expecting a child. While she is waiting for her husband to return she lulls the foetus to sleep, a social practice widespread throughout the whole of the rural world of Maghreb today. Beautifully shot, this debut feature from young Belgian filmmaker Yasmine Kassari offers a bleak perspective on the plight of young women in rural Morocco affected by the labour drain to Europe.
Yassmine Kassari will be a guest of the Festival
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Meet The Filmmaker Session
Facilitated by the Australian Film Television & Radio School, there will be the opportunity to talk with Director Yasmine Kassari (Belgium) in a Q&A session in the cinema immediately following the screening of this on Monday 21 February at 3:00 PM at Greater Union - Cinema 1
When
7:15 PM Saturday, 19 February
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Greater Union - Cinema 1
3:00 PM Monday, 21 February
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Greater Union - Cinema 1
Ticket Price
Full price $14
Industry $12
SPU Concession $10
As Part Of
General FeaturesAbout The Sleeping Child
95 minutes35mm
In French/Berber/Arabic with English subtitles
Print Source
Les Films de la Drève
Jean-Jacques Andrien
dreve@skynet.be
Awards
Best Actress, Koszalin Film Festival 2004Festivals
Koszalin 2004Venice 2004
About the Director
Yasmine Kassari
Yasmine Kassari was born in Morocco in 1972. She studied cinema at the INSAS in Brussels where she graduated in 1997. In the same year she wrote the screenplay for the feature film The Sleeping Child, which won the Trophée du 1er Scénario Jeunes Talents CNC/Paris award in 2003. Before her directing debut with this film, she made three shorts: Chiens errants (1995), Quand les hommes pleurent (2000) and Lynda et Nadia (2002).