Bani Khoshnoudi – Fireflies #IFFR2019

February 4, 2019

Bani Khoshnoudi - Fireflies #IFFR2019 fredfilmradio

Podcast | Download

PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Bani Khoshnoudi, director of the film Fireflies.

An interview with Bani Khoshnoudi, director of Fireflies, shown at the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Fireflies tells the story of a young Iranian gay man in Veracruz and the impact the relationships and friendships he forms in this place of transition have on his life and situation. In this interview, Khoshnoudi discusses the themes of violence and displacement, her influences and how her style favours subtleness. She also mentions that, being an Iranian filmmaker, Fireflies is her first film in Mexico, where she has now lived for some years, but how it was important for her to still have an Iranian element within the narrative.

Fireflies: Ramin, an Iranian immigrant in Mexico, carries his past on his back: literally, in the form of welts. In Fireflies, a Skype conversation reveals that he has left his boyfriend behind in Turkey. Early on in this immigrant drama, Ramin tries to return to Europe, but the high cost stops him. Or is it something else? Ramin single-mindedly steers his own course, even though he could easily join forces with a fellow immigrant, or a woman with a broken heart just like his Luciérnagas deals not only with immigration but also with issues of commitment: two not entirely unrelated issues. Is Ramin’s restless nature the result of the homophobic culture he grew up in? Director Bani Khoshnoudi leaves a lot unexplained, for her audience to chew on afterwards.

Written by: fredfilmradio

Bani Khoshnoudi Fireflies International Film Festival Rotterdam Matt Micucci

Guest

Bani Khoshnoudi Matt Micucci

Film

Fireflies

Festival

Rotterdam Film Festival

Rate it

Channel posts

Interview

Berlinale

Valle d’Aosta Film Commission, interview with the director Alessandra Miletto

February 28, 2025

Alessandra Miletto, director of the valle d'Aosta Film Commission talks about the birth fo three new production companies in the region, to make the territory more competitive production-wise, and also about the rise of the cap in film funding.

Interview

Berlinale

IDM Film Commission, interview with Birgit Oberkofler, Head Film Fund & Commissioner

February 28, 2025

Birgit Oberkofler, Head Film Fund & Commission, of the IDM Film Commission Südtirol presented the two new funds IDM has started, one for Music and the other for Distribution, and also shared the experience of helping the production of "Vermiglio", …

Interview

Berlinale

“Paul”, interview with the director Denis Côté

February 28, 2025

"Paul" is the new film by Denis Côté, that brings him again at the Berlinale. With this documentary in the life of a shy and peculiar man called Paul, the director enters the world and observes the evolution of a …

Interview

Berlinale

“The Good Sister” , interview with the director Sarah Miro Fischer

February 27, 2025

"the Good Sister" by Sarah Miro Fischer starts form a personal experience of violence of the director to narrate what happens between a brother and a sister once he is accused of rape: the perception of a loved one as …

LISTEN TO ALL OUR RADIO CHANNELS

Bani Khoshnoudi – Fireflies #IFFR2019

Channel posts

Valle d’Aosta Film Commission, interview with the director Alessandra Miletto

IDM Film Commission, interview with Birgit Oberkofler, Head Film Fund & Commissioner

“Paul”, interview with the director Denis Côté

“The Good Sister” , interview with the director Sarah Miro Fischer

Top popular

“Bridget Jones – Mad about the boy”, interview with director Michael Morris and actors Renée Zellweger, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall

“Canone Effimero”, intervista ai registi Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio

“Blue Moon”, interview with actors Margaret Qualley and Andrew Scott

75th Berlinale Winners: Dag Johan Haugerud’s ‘Dreams (Sex Love)’ Takes the Golden Bear

“Hysteria”, interview with the director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay

Recent Posts