In “ Bouchra ,” directors Merriam Bennani and Orian Bakri use animation to tell an intimate story taken from Bennani’s life, creating a distance from personal narrative. Instead of making a documentary where Bennani confronts her own family, or translating it into a drama with actors, they have created a world in which human emotion is told through anthropomorphic CG animals. In portraying the fraught relationship between a young lesbian and her conservative mother, animation becomes both a