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    Bouchra

    Orian Barki Meriem Bennani 2025 Italy, Morocco, USA color 82min DCP
    date time venue guests rating
    10/16 19:10 Spot Huasan A One PG15
    10/18 21:30 Spot Huasan A One PG15
    A 35-year-old Moroccan expat and queer filmmaker in New York working on an autobiographical script is paralyzed by the fear of the blank page. A phone call with her mother in Casablanca will have memories resurfacing. Their tender yet complex exchange sparks a creative breakthrough, opening a journey through family bonds, daughterhood, and the thrill of love.

    In this thrilling debut feature, playful animation meets documentary technique to craft an irresistible hybrid narrative, seamlessly bridging daily life in New York and the complexities of being home in Casablanca. With a constantly shifting formal terrain, Bouchra is laced with pathos and familiarity, suffused with the political nuances of inhabiting multiple cultures.

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    Director

    Orian Barki

    An Israeli-born filmmaker living in New York, she has directed numerous short documentaries, focusing on coming-of-age stories in a personal and energetic vérité style. © Valentina Sommariva

    Meriem Bennani

    A Morocco-born artist lives and works in New York. She has been developing a shape-shifting practice of films, sculptures and immersive installations widely shown in numerous solo exhibitions and retrospectives around the world, notably been presented at the Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, the Guggenheim Museum, Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Nottingham Contemporary, Renaissance Society in Chicago and Kamel Lazaar Foundation in Tunis. Often referencing globalized popular culture and the fractured states of modern society, Bennani’s films address the complexity of identities and the issues related to gender, exile, migration, community and the omnipresence of digital technologies. She weaves together humor and critique to explore the political force of collective life, while highlighting the power dynamics that shape our hyper-connected societies. Her works shift easily from music videos to animation, via found footage or documentary material, subverting dominant narratives and opening them up to new, often idiosyncratic and absurdist forms of storytelling. © Valentina Sommariva

    Orian Barki
    Meriem Bennani

    Director Meriem Bennani, Orian Barki

    Screenwriter Meriem Bennani, Orian Barki, Ayla Mrabet

    Cinematographer John Michael Boling

    Head of Animation Jason Coombs

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