The Sleeping Child
| The Sleeping Child | |
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| Directed by | Yasmine Kassari |
| Written by | Yasmine Kassari |
| Starring | Rachida Brakni |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Maroc |
| Languages | Berber Moroccan Arabic |
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 , from CNC (Centre national de la cinématographie).
Plot[]
In Atlas Mountains, Zeinab (), 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,"[1] which, as stated by Florence Martin, presents the viewer with "the womanly gaze on male emigration."[1]
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