Bouchra
“"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, the rift in her cultural identity and an array of romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning becomes her path to expression.
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Cast
28 people
Meriem Bennani
Bouchra (voice)
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Orian Barki
Yani (voice)
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Fayçal Azizi
Nabila (voice)
Also in
Kaboul Kitchen
Double V
Ariana Faye Allensworth
Nikki (voice)
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Hassan Hamdani
Abdellatif (voice)
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Yto Barrada
Aïcha (voice)
Dounia Berrada
Aïcha (voice)
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Bouchra Benzekri
Yamna (voice)
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Salima Dhaibi
Lamia (voice)
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Lil Patty
Bello (voice)
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Youssef Barrada
Radio Caller 1 (voice)
Nisrine Ouazzani
Radio Caller 2 (voice)
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Orian Barki Director · Meriem Bennani Director Ayla Mrabet Writer
United States release June 26, 2026 · Produced in United States, Italy · Languages Arabic, English, French
Production
Fondazione Prada
Production
2 Lizards
Production
Hi Production
Production
SB Films
Production
United States · Italy
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
Arabic · English · French
Release dates
Canada · September 5, 2025
Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
United States · June 26, 2026
Theatrical
United States · August 21, 2026
Digital
United States
September 27, 2025 · Premiere · New York Film Festival
October 16, 2025 · Premiere · Chicago International Film Festival
April 4, 2026 · Premiere · Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBTQ+ Film Festival
April 10, 2026 · Premiere · Maryland Film Festival / Wisconsin Film Festival
April 21, 2026 · Premiere · Milwaukee Film Festival
August 8, 2026 · Premiere · BlackStar Film Festival
Australia
February 18, 2026 · Premiere · Mardi Gras Film Festival
August 13, 2026 · Premiere · Melbourne International Film Festival
Austria
November 12, 2025 · Premiere · Queertactics - Queer_Feminist Film Festival
Belgium
November 30, 2025 · Premiere · Cinemamed Festival
November 1, 2026 · Premiere · Pink Screens Festival
Brazil
September 12, 2026 · Digital · MUBI
Canada
November 7, 2025 · Premiere · CINEMANIA Film Festival
Croatia
November 16, 2025 · Premiere · Zagreb Film Festival
France
November 20, 2025 · Premiere · Entrevues Belfort Film Festival
November 25, 2025 · Premiere · Festival Chéries Chéris
January 21, 2026 · Premiere · Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers
June 3, 2026 · Theatrical
Germany
April 17, 2026 · Premiere · Queergestreift Filmfestival
May 1, 2026 · Premiere · Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International
October 14, 2026 · Premiere · Hamburg International Queer Film Festival
Greece
October 31, 2025 · Premiere · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Italy
October 31, 2025 · Premiere · Fondazione Prada
November 15, 2025 · Premiere · Lo schermo dell'arte
Mexico
September 12, 2026 · Digital · MUBI
Netherlands
July 9, 2026 · Theatrical · Previously Unreleased
Norway
January 20, 2026 · Premiere · Tromsø International Film Festival
Poland
July 24, 2026 · Premiere · TAURON New Horizons International Film Festival
Singapore
December 1, 2025 · Premiere · Singapore International Film Festival
South Korea
September 11, 2026 · Premiere · DMZ International Documentary Film Festival
Sweden
January 27, 2026 · Premiere · Göteborg Film Festival
Switzerland
April 24, 2026 · Premiere · Visions du Réel
September 2, 2026 · Premiere · Fantoche International Animation Film Festival
Taiwan
October 16, 2026 · Premiere · Women Make Waves International Film Festival
United Kingdom
February 26, 2026 · Premiere · Glasgow Film Festival
August 7, 2026 · Theatrical
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