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Hunting Flies

Original title: Fluefangeren
German title: Fliegenfänger *
Norway, North Macedonia, 2016

Director: Aliu, Izer
Production company: Storyline Pictures AS
Age recommendation: 11 years and up
Length: 106 min.
Film genre: Feature film

Synopsis:
A warm drama about the rise and fall of dictatorship. Set to a classroom, over the course of one intense day we get to know Ghani, an idealistic teacher who loses his job on the first day of school. So he makes one final attempt to get it back by locking his students inside the classroom forcing them to resolve a generation long conflict between their villages.

This feature sets up principles against necessity. How long would our beliefs of any kind stand intact when we are forced to choose between them and our livelihood?

Festivals:
Toronto IFF 2016, Tromsø IFF 2017, Göteborg IFF 2017, Kristiansand 2017, Zlin 2017, Haugesund IFF 2017 (awarded), Golden Elephant India 2017

Study guide: Norwegian

World sales address/es:
LevelK (DK)

Sold to:
Europafilm (Norway)