Bouchra

Bouchra, a filmmaker in New York, calls her mother in Morocco. Bouchra is a coyote, and so is her mother. She has been staring at the white pages of her script for some time. She wants to tell the story of how she moved from Casablanca to New York as a queer filmmaker to start a new life, and what role her mother played in her decision to leave. A nine-year silence occurred between them when Bouchra came out; she wants to use her film as a lever to address tensions and unresolved issues. Bouchra’s ‘chosen family’ in New York supports her with advice and action.

The first feature-length animated film by documentary filmmaker Orian Barki and visual artist Meriem Bennani is a layered 3D animated film, a fanciful mix of documentary and humorous fiction, improvisation, flashbacks, and doubled characters.
 

About Previously Unreleased
All summer long, we are showcasing a new film in collaboration with Eye Filmmuseum every week that has been screened at prominent festivals both in the Netherlands and abroad, but has not yet reached Dutch cinemas. Eye believes that this is unjust, and this year also brings a special selection of films from international festivals to the Netherlands.