For Meriem Bennani, a queer Moroccan artist writing the script for her first animated feature, picking up the phone to her mum proved the key to unlocking her story. “As soon as we heard it we were like, ‘Fuck, that’s got to be in the film,’” says Bennani, recalling the moment she played back a recording of the conversation to her co-director, Orian Barki. “It was so much more specific andhellip;

read more raquo;