Best of the Fests

BOUCHRA

Directed by Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki

Italy/Morocco/USA, 2025, 1h 23min, DCP, In Arabic, French, and English with English subtitles.

Best of the Fests

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“A touching and inventive film … that insists on new forms and a new cinematic language.”
—International Cinephile Society

“Far from reiterating tired binaries … [BOUCHRA] embraces the beauty of contradictions with open arms.”
—The Guardian

“Beautiful to look at, a feat of animation, and a triumph of complex storytelling.”
—FlickSided

New York City is filled with animals in artists Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s (best known for the web series 2 LIZARDS) utterly original look at art, creativity, and identity, BOUCHRA. The titular Bouchra — a filmmaker and queer expat envisioned as an anthropomorphic jackal — stares at blank pages in New York as she tries to connect with her mother in Casablanca in this inventive mix of documentary, narrative, and animation.

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