Ramin is a young gay man in his 30s who fled the repression in Iran and arrived to Veracruz after traveling clandestinely on a boat from Turkey. While coping with the distance that he has taken with his loved-ones, he begins to discover a freer life here, far from Iran.
In the ’70s, Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote a famous article where he used the term “fireflies” to refer to people who, for one reason or another, are marginalized by fascist and violent contexts but somehow still manage to find each other and ways of communicating with one another in the darkness of the shadows they’re pushed to. This is a major driving theme of Fireflies (Luciérnagas), the latest film by Iranian filmmaker Bani Khoshnoudi, presented at the 2019 International Film Festival Rotterdam.
