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The Sleeping Child
Directed byYasmine Kassari
Written byYasmine Kassari
StarringMounia Osfour
Rachida Brakni
Nermine Elhaggar
Fatna Abdessamie
Khamsa Abdessamie
Issa Abdessamie
Mimoun Abdessamie
Release date
2004
Running time
95 minutes
CountryMaroc
LanguagesBerber
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 Trophée du Premier Scénario, from CNC (Centre national de la cinématographie).

Plot

In Atlas Mountains, Zeinab (Mounia Osfour), realises she's pregnant when her husband migrated clandestinely to Europe and she decides to sleep the foetus, an old white magic tradition very spread in Maghribian rural world.