From Toronto Platform title “Bouchra’s” credit sequence, where a coyote and goat ride a New York City Subway train shot photo realistically to the sound of Moroccan flute music, many spectators will sense this animated feature.
Another 2025 Toronto Platform title, live action “Hen,” stars a real life black chicken which views the world with intense-eyed startlement. Little wonder. Befriended by the aged proprietor of a now defunct Greek coast restaurant, the hen becomes an unwitting witness of human misery – greed, migrant trafficking, revenge upon revenge.
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