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Saturday, May 9, 2026
4 PM (83 mins)
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Bouchra
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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