'Sleeping child' grabs public and best actor prizes at Angers film festival

The "sleeping child" movie by Belgian-Moroccan director Yasmine Kassari grabbed the public and best actor prizes at the 17th one-week European film festival of Angers, France, wound up on January 30.

The movie had already won the "Great Amber 2004" prize and actress Rachida Brakni was awarded an honor at the film festival of Koszalin, Poland, in addition to the special distinction of the jury at the 2004 international competition of the 8th festival of Mediterranean cinema in Brussels. The movie was also awarded the public prize at the French-speaking 19th international film festival of Namur, Belgium,(2004) and the "European best film" distinction at the Mostra of Venice (2004) awarded by the international art and essay confederation (CICAE). "L'enfant endormi" is about a newly wed woman whose husband illegally leaves the country in the morrow of the wedding. While waiting for her husband to come back, the woman makes her foetus "sleep," but time goes by and the husband does not come back.

The movie is to be screened in Australia, Sweden, Germany and Switzerland.