Bouchra
...a feat of animation, and a triumph of complex storytelling, but it’s also a story of queer acceptance that is needed around the world today.
Bouchra
Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist in New York, the rift in her identity between her two homes and an array of friendships and romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning with her mother and herself becomes her path to expression.
With a lived-in granularity and unmistakable visual style, BOUCHRA, the feature debut from acclaimed visual artists Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki (best known together from their 2020 web series "2 Lizards"), is a singular portrait effortlessly towing the line between documentary, visual art and resonant family drama. Deeply felt, surprisingly sexy and formally adventurous, Bennani and Barki’s distinctive debut forges new ground that “will make it a classic of queer cinema for years to come” (Next Best Picture).
With a lived-in granularity and unmistakable visual style, BOUCHRA, the feature debut from acclaimed visual artists Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki (best known together from their 2020 web series "2 Lizards"), is a singular portrait effortlessly towing the line between documentary, visual art and resonant family drama. Deeply felt, surprisingly sexy and formally adventurous, Bennani and Barki’s distinctive debut forges new ground that “will make it a classic of queer cinema for years to come” (Next Best Picture).
Genre
Avant Garde,
Animated,
Films & Filmmakers,
Bio-pic,
LGBTQ+
Web Site
Runtime
85
Language
Arabic,
Italian,
English
Director
Meriem Bennani,
Orian Barki
Producer
John Michael Boling,
Jason Coombs
Writer(s)
Meriem Bennani,
Orian Barki,
Ayla Mrabet
Cast
Meriem Bennani,
Fatim-Zahra Alami,
Yto Barrada,
Dounia Berrada,
Orian Barki,
Ariana Faye Allensworth
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