Yasmine Kassari
Directing
Biography
Yasmine Kassari (Morocco, 1970) is a Belgian-Moroccan director and screenwriter. A graduate of INSAS in Brussels, she directed several short films: "Le Feutre noir" in 1994, "Stray Dogs" in 1995, "Lynda et Nadia" in 2000. In 2000, she directed When Men Weep. In 2004, she directed her first fiction feature entitled L'enfant endormi, with which she received several international awards, such as the audience award at the Premiers Plans festival in Angers in 2005.
Known For
In the northeast of contemporary Morocco, Zeinab, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding. Zeinab is expecting a child. While she is waiting for her husband to return she lulls the foetus to sleep. Time goes by and the husband does not come back.
L'enfant Endormi
Four young Moroccans, like thousands of others, cross the sea illegally to work in Spain.
When Men Cry
By giving farmers a voice and showing their struggle for survival, this sensitive portrait of farmers shows a contemporary peasant world, revealing its profound culture and interrogating the present state of the world.
Il a plu sur le grand paysage
Two men arrive in a truck at an anonymous Moroccan village. They roam the town with shotguns, shooting stray dogs. A homeless man tries to keep his 'pet' dog safe from them.