{"id":1636,"date":"2026-08-07T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:57:00","slug":"bouchra-an-anthropomorphised-story-of-queer-identity-and-cultural-longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"Bouchra: An Anthropomorphised Story of Queer Identity and Cultural Longing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17389\/bouchra-film-meriem-bennani-orian-barki-interview?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=bouchra-an-anthropomorphised-story-of-queer-identity-and-cultural-longing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/6\/476201.jpg\" alt=\"Bouchra, 2026\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/16079\/artist-meriem-bennani-interview\"><strong>Meriem Bennani<\/strong><\/a>, 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. \u201cAs soon as we heard it we were like, \u2018Fuck, that\u2019s got to be in the film,\u2019\u201d says Bennani, recalling the moment she played back a recording of the conversation to her co-director, <strong>Orian Barki. <\/strong>\u201cIt was so much more specific andhellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17389\/bouchra-film-meriem-bennani-orian-barki-interview?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=bouchra-an-anthropomorphised-story-of-queer-identity-and-cultural-longing\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u201cAs soon as we heard it we were like, \u2018Fuck, that\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}