Bouchra

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Bouchra

original title:

Bouchra

screenplay:

cinematography:

John Michael Boling

set design:

Meriem Bennani, John Michael Boling

costume design:

Meriem Bennani, Becky Akinyode

music:

Flavien Berger

country:

Italy/Morocco/USA

year:

2025

film run:

83'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (23/07/2025)

genre:

animation film

festivals & awards:

In this film, 35-year-old Moroccan Coyote and filmmaker, Bouchra, lives in New York and chronicles the impact her queerness has on her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, in Casablanca. Cutting between the film that’s forming and real-life conversations between Bouchra and Aïcha (recreations of phone calls that took place between Bennani and her mother), Bouchra is a humorous and tender portrait of the love and pain that both sides have to understand in order to move forward.