Talk:Bouchra

Extra links

Withheld from topic proper per tentative WP:RS/WP:Relevance concerns, but otherwise relevant.

General

• A catalogue listing from FilmItalia, confirming a completion/delivery date of 23 July 2025 and mentioning a certain Flavien Berger as composer. Also lists upcoming appearances at this year's Chicago and Rome events (as of this section's original printing).
• An Instagram video post (20 December 2024) from the official account of Fondazione Prada (one of the film's production companies), promoting Meriem Bennani's art exhibit For My Best Family. (Contains a behind-the-scenes clip of what was originally called For Aicha.)

--Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 00:56, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

• A Novembre article (3 January 2025) that mentions For Aicha, but otherwise focuses completely on the Sole Crushing portion of Family. The latter's composer, Cheb Runner, is also namechecked.
• Délano, Alberto Cox (2025-09-27). "TIFF50 and Now New York Film Festival: 'Bouchra' and What Live Action Can't Do (But Animation Can)". Alberto's Substack. Retrieved 2025-09-29. (From a platform that otherwise likely runs short of RS standards; via a recent Threads post by the author.)

--Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 10:46, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

• This Times Square Chronicles clipping mentions the "grand applause" it received at the NYFF, but is otherwise routine. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 00:06, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
• Bidoun (2025-09-23). "APAS". A Protest Against Spaghetti. Bidoun. Retrieved 2025-10-08. Interview with Bennani, Barki, and Valentin Noujaïm; inaugural post from a Substack affiliate. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 05:38, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
• "Vaquera-wearing Coyotes, Zara-wearing Ralph Lauren Designers". Secret Strategist. 2025-10-09. Retrieved 2025-10-18. Bouchra's signature look consists of a Vaquera leather jacket and Bless pants, an outfit taken straight from the costume designer Becky Akinyode's personal wardrobe [side-by-side comparison pictured]. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 21:53, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
• Official 22-page press kit by Taka PR & Communications.
• Artsy auction listing for a clock based on Bennani's 2017 film Ghariba, whose title is Arabic for "stranger" and "opens with a shot of the face of a woman, Bouchra, in a spinning clock." Bouchra is Bennani's real-life aunt.

--Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 20:22, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

• A Facebook photo post (21 October 2025) from composer Flavien Berger, featuring the official poster. Up for grabs at WP:Files for upload once the topic hits mainspace.

"This music wouldn't exist without the dazzling Thibaud Merle. Get ready for some queer sax in chiaroscuro animation through the streets of Casablanca and Manhattan. Big up to Zsela for lending her voice to the psychedelic elevator."

--Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 15:53, 23 October 2025 (UTC)

• A 23 October post from the official LinkedIn account of Jeu de Paume, a cinema in Paris. Announcement of Bouchra's screening on 26 October alongside two other New Waves selections from La Roche-sur-Yon, The New West (25/10) and Blue Heron (26/10). --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 02:26, 24 October 2025 (UTC)
• An 8 September tweet from Justin Hunt Sloane, showing his logo design for Bennani and Barki's 2 Lizards company. (Via XCancel proxy.) --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 20:37, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
• Nunn, Jerry (2025-11-02). "FILM CIFF showcases queer filmmakers and comes out of (Criterion's) Closet". Windy City Times. Retrieved 2025-11-02. Queer programmer Sophie Gordon watched an avalanche of material before narrowing down the top contenders for judges to decide winners in the OutLook Competition.... [As Barki tells Windy City,] '[This story] is told from my co-director Meriem Bennani's perspective. Although we broke up while making this film, we are going to continue to work together in the future.' --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 10:18, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
• Quietly picked up stateside by Film Movement? --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 15:50, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Festival appearances

(Cf. 6 November Instagram post by 2 Lizards company)

• Europe

  • France:

    • Bordeaux, 10 October
    • La Roche-sur-Yon, 16–17 October (New Waves Competition)
    • Belfort, 20 & 22 November
    • Chéries-Chéris, 22 & 25 November
    • Angers, 17–25 January 2026
  • Valladolid (Seminci), 29 & 31 October (Alchemies)
  • Thessaloniki, 31 October (Listed under its Greek transliteration, Μπούσρα)
  • Vienna (Queertactics), 12 November; festival's bilingual DE-EN listing even mentions the furry community as a potential demographic
  • Florence (Lo Schermo dell'Arte), 15 November
  • Zagreb, 16 November (PLUS)
  • Brussels (CinemaMed), 30 November (Compétition Rêvolution/Mémoire Vive)
  • Tromsø (Norway), 19–25 January 2026
  • Brussels Anima, 22 February 2026
• Montreal (Cinemania), 7 & 9 November (Le Maroc, Pays à l'honneur)
• Singapore, 1 December (Undercurrent)

--Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 23:29, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

• Honorable mention to a 9 October "Buyers Club Market Screening" at Rome's Mercato Internazionale Audiovisio (MIA). --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 19:54, 12 October 2025 (UTC)
• As well as the 20 March 2026 UK premiere at the ICA in London, as chosen for their Off-Circuit banner which spotlights under-the-radar films. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 21:44, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

Toronto pre-release

TIFF's official listing mentions a 4 September "Press & Industry" preview screening, one day before its official premiere. (Withheld per WP:INDEPENDENT.) --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 20:47, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by TarnishedPath (talk) 14:25, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that Bouchra's anthropomorphic characters have been compared to those in Zootopia, Aesop's Fables, and the furry community?

• Source:

• Lang, Jamie (2025-09-05). "'Spit and Duct Tape and Dreams': How a Small Global Team Built the Queer CG Feature 'Bouchra,' Premiering in Toronto". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on 8 September 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
• Mobarak, Jared (2025-09-05). "TIFF Review: Bouchra is an Aesthetically Bold, Personal Animation". The Film Stage. Archived from the original on 6 September 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
• Neulichedl, Veronica (2025-10-19). "Il Processo Terapeutico dell'Animazione queer di 'Bouchra'". Taxidrivers (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-11-16.
• Ghelani, Sailesh; Sharan, Swati (2025-09-23). "TIFF 2025 Film Reviews". Minority Review. Retrieved 2025-11-16.

• • ALT1: ... that Bouchra was the first animated Platform Prize nominee at the Toronto International Film Festival? Source: Hazelton, John (2025-07-22). "Nine world premieres set for Toronto competitive auteur section Platform". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • ALT2: ... that Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki's Bouchra revisits the universe of their 2020 web series, 2 Lizards? Source: Tan, Lumi (2024). "Meriem Bennani". CURA. Vol. 43. Retrieved 2025-11-16. / McLean-Ferris, Laura (2024-12-02). "Reviews: Meriem Bennani, 'For My Best Family' at Fondazione Prada, Milan". Mousse Magazine. Archived from the original on 13 January 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • ALT3: ... that Bouchra was funded and hosted by Milan's Fondazione Prada under the title For Aicha? Source: Wilk, Elvia (2025-10-01). "Scripting Intimacy: Meriem Bennani and the Art of Animating Reality". Hyundai Artlab. Retrieved 2025-11-16. / Mang, Lolita (2025-10-21). "À Paris, cette exposition gratuite va vous donner envie… de danser !". Vogue France (in French). Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • ALT4: ... that Bouchra proved popular with the furry userbase of the Letterboxd site? Source: Scarabelli, Taylore (2025-10-03). "NYFF: How Filmmakers Meriem Bennani and Orian Barki Got the Furries Freaking Out". Interview Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 October 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • ALT5: ... that Bouchra was the first animated feature produced in Morocco? Source: Lang, Jamie (2025-09-05). "'Spit and Duct Tape and Dreams': How a Small Global Team Built the Queer CG Feature 'Bouchra,' Premiering in Toronto". Cartoon Brew. Archived from the original on 8 September 2025. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Nobody (2025 film); Template:Did you know nominations/Booming Ben
  • Comment: I didn't choose this topic--the topic chose me.
    Certainly the most opportune "animated first by country" I've chanced upon in my WP career--from the moment the Brew first brought it up during its Toronto premiere. This one ticked a lot of boxes as concerns my tastes and interests: feature animation, furry works, LGBTQ+ (as a sympathiser), arthouse fare, and foreign cinema.
    All of which has led to not only my most ambitious quest for a Four Award,^{Which could also become AFC's fifth, months from now} but also my most ambitious DYK pitch to date--thus concluding Phase 2a of that Four campaign. (So many hook options, so much Google-pinging, so little time.) How much this brings the furry crowd to WP's front page next year--and whether the fine press will take notice--time and the Masters will tell. As always, WP is short on coverage of animated African media, especially in terms of quality. (Caribbean audiovisual content, too--speaking as a Florida-based expatriate--but that's for another thread.)
    As an editor who has endured for 20 years, an FA may finally be in my sights--and I'll never have to worry about editing again once I get it. After ages of prospects and false starts, it's about time already...
    

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    With special thanks to AFC approver LuniZunie (talk · contribs).

Moved to mainspace by Slgrandson (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 16 past nominations.

Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 15:32, 16 November 2025 (UTC).

• Drive-by comment, I think none of these hooks are interesting. But they might be interesting when combined. I propose:
  ALT6: ... that the first animated feature produced in Morocco became popular among the furry community?
  — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 19:58, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
• @Slgrandson: ALT3 has a second bolded article, For My Best Family. Did you mean to turn this into a double?--Launchballer 18:30, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
  • @Launchballer: Optional (in case that gets chosen). --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 18:34, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

That article could easily clip into many of the other hooks. I'd suggest something like ALT7: ... that a re-edit of an animated film produced for a 2024 Milan exhibition became popular among the furry community?. You'd need a second QPQ for it though.--Launchballer 18:52, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

@Slgrandson: Do you plan on providing a second QPQ or should I review Bouchra as a single?--Launchballer 17:50, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: Bidding on a double tomorrow. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 22:38, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

• @Slgrandson: Any updates on this? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:10, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
  • @Narutolovehinata5: Apologies, but thanks to a lot of happenings off-wiki (real-world or online) those past several days, my personal/creative enthusiasm/motivation—and holiday spirit—recently hit an all-time low. (For starters...)

Regardless, I've committed to the extra QPQ amid a spell of reluctance and autopilot; see above. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 16:11, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

I know the feeling. Will review both in the next 24 hours.--Launchballer 16:19, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

This is going to be slow work I'm afraid as I'm not feeling great, but the articles are new enough and long enough and the QPQs are compliant (although I'm surprised WP:DYKAPRIL wasn't mooted for the Nobody hook).--Launchballer 15:33, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Articles look fine, haven't yet checked Earwig. My ALT7 won't work as the hook says 'furry community' and the article says 'furry userbase of the online film database Letterboxd', and I'm not sure this is the same thing.--Launchballer 09:49, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

@Slgrandson: Earwig picks up CLOP in the For My Best Family article with , which shows a different translation of the "force that takes the form" quote. Is there a reason they differ? Also, I'll need a new reviewer either way for ALT8: ... that a re-edit of an animated film produced for a 2024 Milan exhibition became popular among one site's furry userbase?--Launchballer 15:19, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

@Launchballer: I was working from the Finestre sull'Arte source on the film's article, which is why. --Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 02:37, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

Alright, new reviewer needed for my ALT.--Launchballer 09:13, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

• cited and interesting :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 15:24, 7 January 2026 (UTC)