Bouchra

featuring

Meriem Bennani, Yto Barrada, Dounia Berrada, Bouchra Benzekri,

Set between New York, Rabat, and Casablanca, in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals and suspended between realism, autobiography, and fiction, this artwork, the culmination of a long creative process, blends documentary and 3D animation languages. The film follows Bouchra, a thirty-five-year-old Moroccan jackal and filmmaker living in New York, as she writes an autobiographical film exploring how her queerness has impacted her mother, Aicha, a cardiologist jackal living in Casablanca. The story blends fiction—Bouchra’s film within the film—with an adaptation of recorded nonfiction conversations between Meriem Bennani and her mother.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Orian Barki
  • Meriem Bennani
  • Ayla Mrabet
Cinematographer
  • John Michael Boling
Language
  • English
  • French
  • Arabic
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 83 mins
Source
  • Film Movement

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