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 that begin influencing the project. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist in New York, 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.
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I got to see this when it blew through Seattle and it’s a fascinating and deeply specific story. I’m delighted that such a thing managed to get made and find an audience.
Puppy 🥺
