BOUCHRA (2025), THE DEBUT FEATURE BY Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki, explores the relationship between Bouchra, a 35-year-old Moroccan coyote living in New York, and her mother Aicha, in Casablanca. It is a queer, computer-animated film with the same processual question driving an early ’90s Disney film: how can animation give form to intimacy? Together, across continents and emotional gulfs, Bouchra and Aicha navigate the complexities of love, pain, and secrets that unite them.