Bouchra Khalili

Bouchra Khalili

50 (1975-05-05)
Casablanca, Morocco

Bouchra Khalili is a Moroccan-French visual artist. Raised between Morocco and France, she studied Film at Sorbonne Nouvelle and Fine Arts at École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy. She lives in Berlin, Germany.

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Cinetracts '20 2020 (6)

A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the zeitgeist in their own backyard, the artists' short films are the culmination of a year-long residency project.
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Straight Stories, Part 1 2006 (5)

Somewhere between documentary and fiction, this is an essay on questions of territory and human displacements made during an excursion from southern Spain to northern Morocco. Travelling on the Mediterranean rim, we hear immigrants tell their stories.
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Anya: Straight Stories, Part 2 2008

On one hand an exploration of the Bosphorus as a “continuous drift” between Europe and Asia; on the other, the tale (recounted via voiceover) of Anya, an undocumented Iraqi who has lived in the region for 12 years awaiting a visa to Australia.