Yasmine Kassari (b. 1972, Morocco) is a director, screenwriter and producer. She studied cinema at INSAS in Brussels where she graduated in 1997. In the same year she started the screenplay for the feature film The Sleeping Child. The scenario won top prize in a Paris screenwriting competition in 2003. Before making her feature debut with, she directed two shorts, Chiens errants (1995) and Linda and Nadia (2000), and the documentary Quand les hommes pleurent (2002). Since making its debut at the Venice film festival, The Sleeping Child captured the Best Director Prize and the Cinematography Prize at the Mar del Plata Festival, the Audience Award at Film Francophone de Namur, and acting kudos for Rachida Brakni and Mounia Osfour in Angers, France and Koszalin, Poland.
MFF Karlovy Vary
