Bebind the Scenes at New York Film Festival 2025
Meriem Bennani and Orian Yani Barki (Pictured Above)
Bouchra Filmmakers, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Lower East Side
Deplete Bouchra Is an animated Movie About a Queer Coyote who comes to her Cardiologist Mother?
Orian: It’s a movie About a Mother-Daughter Relationship. Its USSING Real Conversations that MERIEM HAD WITH HER MOM, RECORDED BY SOMEONE ELSE. And Ishit Love and Acceptance and Daughterhour and Diaspora.
How’d The Screening Go?
Meriem: New York is home, so we have a lot of Friends and Family here – Everyone was just Very enthusiastic. We had a bit of a biased audience today, but it was amazing.
Did you coordinate your outfits?
Orian: I’m wearing a blazer that belongs to meriem – a lot of my outfits are things that belong to meriem.
Meriem: Well, it was hot Today. I was going to wear a suit and then i was like, I probably Need to not wear a full suite.
Ivy wolk
Actor, crown heights
Know English Taacher Season Two JUST CAME OUT, WHICH YOU’RE IN.
Yes, i’m in episode one and seven. I have a lot of Screen Time. They’ve used my face in every promotional material, and i’m like, Let’s Pay with More.
Lío mehiel
ACTOR, BEDFORD-STUYVESANT
Renate reinsve
Actor, Oslo, Norway
Mary Neely
Actor and Writer, Fort Greene
Cat Cohen
COMEDIAN AND ACTOR, West Village
What is the worst you’ve ever bombed onstage?
Two Weeks Ago at Texas Christian University. It was 45 minutes of silence. I’m Scared of Gen Z, but nothing but Respect for the Crowd. I say. I WOULD DIE FOR ANYONE WHO WAS THERE.
Camille Henrot
Artist, Upper West Side
Preston Baffour
Curator, harlem
Hailey Gates
Filmmaker, Upper West Side
How do you have been to the festival?
I do’t know if i can Count say, but i think the first time i came, i saw Antichrist. There are were ambulances Outside Because Multiple People Were Passing Out. It was wonderful. It was thriling. I was like, Movies Are Crazy.
Alice Diop
Filmmaker, France
Sophie ruby
Stylist, Bedford-Stuyvesant
Richard Linklater
Filmaker, Austin, Texas
What was it like to direct a movie Completely in French?
Oh, Wonderful. To me, I of Hear French, It Feels Like the Language of Cinema. IT’S JUST The way this movie always sounded in my head, this though it’s a language i don’t really specifically. I was always making a subtitled movie, and the Language was the soundtrack to it.
Delphine Selles-Alvarez
Curator movie, Prospect Park South
D. D. Wigley
Executive Producer, Port Townsend, Washington
What is your go-to movie snack?
I have had teeth. There is no Such Thing as a movie snack for with anymore. IT USED TO BE, OF COURSE, THE BEST BUTTERED POPCORN. My favor food – again, no teeth, i’m just telling you as a type – is pesto with radishes.
Christopher Thomas Barnett
Public-Relations Manager, Harlem
Steve
Professor Emeritus, Columbus, Ohio
Elle Fanning
Actor, Greenwich Village
Mettie Ostrowski
Photographer, Flatbush
Jean-christophe follow
ACTOR, FRANCE
How are you liking new york so far?
I’m staying in the bronx – iTi’s different in Manhattan, which is a bit more stressful. I took the subway here, and they should turn the ac Off on the train Because of Caught a Cold. The ac is really streng here; I don’t know how you do it.
Photographs by Frankie Alduino
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