Bouchra (San Francisco)
We are proud to co-present BOUCHRA, beginning July 31st at the Little Roxie in San Francisco.
“Aesthetically bold [and] personal…one of the year’s most inventive animations.” – The Film Stage
BOUCHRA is the feature debut from acclaimed visual artists Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki. Deeply felt, surprisingly sexy, and formally adventurous, Bouchra forges new ground that “will make it a classic of queer cinema for years to come” (Next Best Picture).
Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist in the city, the rift in her identity between her two homes, and an array of friendships and romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning with her mother and herself becomes her path to expression.