Bouchra vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.4/10 for Bouchra). Bouchra is the shorter watch at 1h 23m compared with 1h 41m. Soul is the older of the two (2020 against 2026). Both are animation, comedy, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Bouchra
Soul| Bouchra | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.4/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 23m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Animation, Comedy, Drama | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Meriem Bennani, Orian Barki | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Daniel Arnold, Meriem Bennani, Orian Barki, Fayçal Azizi, Ariana Faye Allensworth | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Bouchra
Wrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist, the rift in her cultural identity and an array of romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning becomes her path to expression.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…