Bouchra
Synopsis
Bouchra, a coyote, is a queer Moroccan filmmaker based in New York City, navigating love and work in a world populated by other animal friends and family, including her hot ex-girlfriend, a cow, her best friend, a lizard, and her mom, Aicha, a coyote who lives back home in Casablanca. While Bouchra is finding her way in Manhattan, she has never resolved her mother’s lack of acceptance of her sexuality. It’s not that Bouchra has never come out; it’s that despite their closeness, her mom simply refuses to talk about it.
Brought to life in 3D animation, filmmaking team Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani, known for their 2020 lockdown art sensation 2 Lizards, have crafted a unique animated docu-fiction hybrid that is profoundly intimate, light-hearted, and touching, with a quirky surrealist edge. So what if they’re cool animals? Bouchra is a universal story of immigrant life, family conflict, and queer identity.
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Film Credits
- 2 Lizards
- Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani, Ayla Mrabet
- Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani
- John Michael Boling
- Meriem Bennani, Yto Barrada, Orian Barki, Ariana Faye Allensworth, Salima Dhaibi
- Flavien Berger
- Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani, Max Brun, Hi Production, Cécile Winckler, Octavia Peissel, Ella Bishop, Pau Suris, Jake Cheetham
- 2 Lizards Production, Hi Production, Fondazione Prada
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- Nabil Ayouch, Amine Benjelloun, Jean-Rémi Ducourtioux, Simon de Santiago, Fernando Bovaira, Fred Burle, Sol Bondy, Sebastian Schelenz
- Maryam Touzani, Nabil Ayouch
- Teresa Font
- Virginie Surdej
- Carmen Maura, Marta Etura, Ahmed Boulane, María Alfonsa Rosso
- Freya Arde
- Les Films du Nouveau Monde, Mod Producciones, One Two Films, Velvet Films, Ali n’ Productions
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