Sleeping Child

Arab Cinema Panorama

Sleeping Child

Wednesday, September 29

Flavin Family Auditorium SOM 137   from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Free and open to the public

Sleeping Child (Yasmine Kassari, Morocco/Belgium, 2005, 110 minutes, in Berber, Arabic, and French with English subtitles) In Yasmine Kassari's lyrical feature debut, women carry on living in the absence of their husbands who seek employment opportunity abroad, including performing a folk ritual called the "sleeping child."