Yasmine Kassari


Yasmine Kassari is a Moroccan film director, known for multi-layered diasporic cinema.
Kassari moved to Paris as a teenager, where she graduated from high school and enrolled in a medical school. After studying medicine for two years, she abruptly decided to become a filmmaker and registered at INSAS in Brussels. As a student she also worked for the production company Les films de la drève, where she was mentored by Jean-Jacques Andrien. In the 1990s, she directed three short films and in 2000, she directed the documentary Quand les hommes pleurent about the Moroccan immigration to Spain. Her 2004 film L'Enfant endormi received the Great Amber Award for Best Film and the Jury Prize for Best Film at the Bos'Art Film Festival.

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