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SUMMARY:Pottenkijkers: Bouchra
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DESCRIPTION:After a summer break\, Pottenkijkers returns to our favorite th
	eater De Uitkijk\non September 16 with the original\, groundbreaking anima
	ted film Bouchra (2025)\,\nthe first feature film by documentary filmmaker
	 Orian Barki and visual artist\nMeriem Bennani (known for the web series 2
	 Lizards).\n\nBouchra\, a filmmaker from New York\, tries to write about h
	er departure from\nCasablanca and her mother in Morocco. In the nine years
	 since Bouchra came out\,\nshe and her mother have barely spoken. While Bo
	uchra seeks support from her\nfriends in the New York queer scene\, she pi
	cks up the phone and calls her\nmother. In doing so\, she tries to come to
	 terms with exactly what happened\, and\nwith everything that has remained
	 unspoken between them.\n\nBarki and Bennani bring documentary\, fiction\,
	 improvisation and memory together.\nBouchra and her mother appear as coyo
	tes\, sometimes in multiple versions at\nonce\, as they approach\, avoid a
	nd repeatedly try to understand one another.\nBouchra is not only a film a
	bout a complicated mother-daughter relationship\, but\nalso about migratio
	n\, intimacy\, and the question of how to tell a story that has\nnot yet r
	eached its end.\n\n * Language: English\, French\, Arabic\n * Subtitles: E
	nglish\n * Duration: 83 mins.\n * Director: Orian Yani Barki & Meriem Benn
	ani\n * Cast: Meriem Bennani\, Orian Barki\, Fayçal Azizi\n * Year: 2025\n
	 * Country: United States\, Italy\, Maroc
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/pottenkijkers-bouchra
GEO:52.36476;4.8843948
LOCATION:De Uitkijk - Prinsengracht 452\, 1017 KE Amsterdam
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,documentary,film,improv,leidseplein,queer,stor
	ies,theater
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>After a summer break, Pottenkijkers
	 returns to our favorite theater De Uitkijk on September 16 with the origi
	nal, groundbreaking animated film Bouchra (2025), the first feature film b
	y documentary filmmaker Orian Barki and visual artist Meriem Bennani (know
	n for the web series 2 Lizards).</strong></p> <p>Bouchra, a filmmaker from
	 New York, tries to write about her departure from Casablanca and her moth
	er in Morocco. In the nine years since Bouchra came out, she and her mothe
	r have barely spoken. While Bouchra seeks support from her friends in the 
	New York queer scene, she picks up the phone and calls her mother. In doin
	g so, she tries to come to terms with exactly what happened, and with ever
	ything that has remained unspoken between them.</p> <p>Barki and Bennani b
	ring documentary, fiction, improvisation and memory together. Bouchra and 
	her mother appear as coyotes, sometimes in multiple versions at once, as t
	hey approach, avoid and repeatedly try to understand one another. Bouchra 
	is not only a film about a complicated mother-daughter relationship, but a
	lso about migration, intimacy, and the question of how to tell a story tha
	t has not yet reached its end.</p> <ul> <li> <strong>Language:</strong> En
	glish, French, Arabic </li> <li> <strong>Subtitles:</strong> English </li>
	 <li> <strong>Duration:</strong> 83 mins. </li> <li> <strong>Director:</st
	rong> Orian Yani Barki &amp; Meriem Bennani </li> <li> <strong>Cast:</stro
	ng> Meriem Bennani, Orian Barki, Fayçal Azizi </li> <li> <strong>Year:</st
	rong> 2025 </li> <li> <strong>Country:</strong> United States, Italy, Maro
	c </li> </ul>
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