Bouchra
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Fri 07 Aug · 20:40
Juggling her life in New York and her family in Morocco, 35-year-old queer artist Bouchra finishes the script for her autobiographical film, unearthing unreconciled conflicts and pursuing new romances in the process.
Animation • LGBTQ+ • Beautiful • Magical
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Part of Cinema Africa!
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.
Details
Duration
1hr 23mins
Director
Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani
Distributor
TAPE Collective
Featuring
Meriem Bennani • Orian Barki • Ariana Faye Allensworth
Year
2025
Country of origin
US • Italy • Morocco
Language
English • French • Arabic with English subtitles
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LGBTQIA+ discrimination
