‘Bouchra’ Review: Animated Memoir Explores Diasporic Queer Identity and the Fraught Bonds Between Mothers and Daughters

In “Bouchra,” directors Merriam Bennani and Orian Bakri use animation to tell an intimate story taken from Bennani’s life, creating a distance from personal narrative. Instead of making a documentary where Bennani confronts her own family, or translating it into a drama with actors, they have created a world in which human emotion is told […]