WHAT'S ON YOUR HEART?

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.

The debut feature from artists Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani, an animated autofiction that renders a queer immigrant's coming-of-age through a cast of expressive 3D-animated animals. Premiering in the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival before playing the New York Film Festival. At the time of its launch on Letterboxd Video Store, "Bouchra" ranked in the Top 250 Films by Queer Directors on Letterboxd.

Languages: English, French, and Arabic. English closed captions available for the full film; English subtitles for the French and Arabic dialogue are additionally burnt in and cannot be turned off.