Fireflies

Luciérnagas

60th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Ramin is a young Iranian homosexual forced to live in the limbo of self-exile, so as to escape persecution in his country. When he hid in a cargo ship leaving Turkey, he never expected to arrive in Veracruz, Mexico, so far from anything familiar. Now entrapped in this decadent tropical port city, he begins to realize that he has no choice but to let go of his past. His nostalgia and melancholy are cured through new friendships and the appearance of love that slowly allow him to rediscover his own identity.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Bani Khoshnoudi

Script: Bani Khoshnoudi

Cinematography: Benjamín Echazarreta

Editing: Miguel Schverdfinger, Gil González Penilla

Sound: Félix Blume, Javier Umpierrez

Music: Sohrab Karimi

Actors: Arash Marandi, Edwarda Gurrola, Luis Alberti, Eligio Meléndez, Ishbel Mata, Eduardo Mendizábal, Uriel Ledezma

Production: Zensky Cine, Pensée Sauvage Films

Producers: Elsa Reyes Garcés, Bani Khoshnoudi

Co-production: Haos Film, KinoElektron, Aurora Dominicana

Co-producers: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Janja Kralj, Israel Cardenas

Art Direction: Florent Vitse

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Mexico, Greece, Dominican Republic

Production Year: 2018

Duration: 86΄

Contact: FiGa Films, contact@figafilms.com

Awards/Distinctions: Best Film (HBO Ibero-American Competition) – Miami FF 2019

Bani Khoshnoudi

Bani Khoshnoudi was born in Tehran in 1977, but her family moved to the United States during the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Her approach to cinema derives from a background in photography & architecture and often deals with themes that explore the unseen aspects of collective and individual memory, exile and migration. Since 2009, she lives in Mexico City, where she filmed her second feature Fireflies.