Bouchra (2024)
"What's on your heart?"
83 min
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, the rift in her cultural identity and an array of romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning becomes her path to expression.
- Release date
- June 3, 2026
- Country of origin
- United States, Italy, Morocco
Trailer
Cast
- Yto Barrada as Aicha
- Meriem Bennani as Bouchra
- Dounia Berrada as Aicha
- Bouchra Benzekri as Yamna
- Salima Dhaibi as Lamia
- Ariana Faye Allensworth as Nikki
- Hassan Hamdani as Abdellatif
- May as Kenza
- Mohamed Aitbenammou as Bello
- Fayçal Azizi as Nabila
Crew
- Orian Yani Barki · Director
- Meriem Bennani · Director
- Orian Yani Barki · Writer
- Meriem Bennani · Writer
- Ayla Mrabet · Writer
- Antonio Santini · Writer
- Filippo Fante · Producer
- Flavien Berger · Composer
- John Michael Boling · Cinematographer
- Orian Yani Barki · Editor
- Meriem Bennani · Editor
- Ayla Mrabet · Casting director
- Meriem Bennani · Production designer
- John Michael Boling · Production designer