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Director
  
Yasmine Kassari

Screenplay
  
Yasmine Kassari

Writer
  
Yasmine Kassari

6.4/10
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Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
Maroc

The Sleeping Child movie poster

Language
  
Berber Moroccan Arabic

Release date
  
2004

Cast
  
Mounia Osfour
,
Rachida Brakni
,
Nermine Elhaggar
,
Fatna Abdessamie
,
Khamsa Abdessamie
,
Issa Abdessamie

Music director
  
Levon Minassian, Armand Amar, Koussan Achod

Similar movies
  
Horses of God (2012)

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The Sleeping Child (in French, L'Enfant endormi) is a 2004 Belge-Moroccan movie written and directed by Yasmine Kassari. The film has obtained several prizes like Trophée du Premier Scénario, from CNC (Centre national de la cinématographie).

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Haggard the sleeping child


Plot

In Atlas Mountains, Zeinab (Mounia Osfour), realises she's pregnant when her husband migrates to Europe along with other men from the village. Her mother-in-law convinces her to sleep the foetus, in keeping with an old white magic tradition very spread in Maghribian rural world. According to Kassari, this plot-point serves as the "luminous point that sheds light on the situation of these women who have remained alone in the country, facing the absence of their men," which, as stated by Florence Martin, presents the viewer with "the womanly gaze on male emigration."

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