The Sleeping Tree. Genre: Family, Drama. Director: Mohammed BuAli. Cast: Ibrahim Al-Hasawi. Release Date: 2014-12-13. Runtime: 87 minutes. Rating: 6/10. Entrapped within a prison of his own making, a father's outlook and relationship with reality is questioned... Neglecting both his wife and daughter, Jassim lives a separate life to his family within an atmosphere of foreboding. It is only during a chance convergence of circumstances in which he visits the legendary tree of life that Jassim begins to question his understandings.