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Hunting Flies (2016 film)
Hunting Flies (Fluefangeren) is a 2016 Norwegian drama film directed and written by Izer Aliu. SynopsisHunting Flies is a drama film set in a classroom over the course of one day. The protagonist, Ghani, is an idealistic teacher who loses his job on the first day of teaching. In a bid to get his job back he locks his students in the classroom and forces them to resolve a long-running conflict between their villages. Cast
ProductionHunting Flies is the directorial debut feature film of Izer Aliu, who also wrote the screenplay.[3] It was produced by Khalid Maimouni, who was born in Tangier, Morocco, in 1979, moving to Norway when he was 11. He has been involved in filmmaking since 2007.[4] After the project had started in April of 2013, filming was done over 22 days of the hot summer, in a rural area near Skopje in Macedonia. Nils Eilif Bremdal was director of photography and part of a team of only five people. Writer/director Aliu worked from an 11-page synopsis, developing the script as they worked.[2] There was only one professional actor in the film, Burhan Amiti; the rest were friends and relatives, including the filmmaker's wife, as it was difficult to find women prepared to act in the film.[2] ThemesWriter/director Aliu says that Hunting Flies is "above all, a political film" in which he aimed "to evoke the birth, the flourishing, and the fall of a dictator, within a school setting". He said it was about the loss of principles, and the challenge of remaining true to ourselves "when the system forces us to change".[2] ReleaseHunting Flies had its world premiere in the Discovery section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival,[5] and went on to screen at many other film festivals.[4] AccoladesThe film earned many nominations and some wins in several awards in 2017, including:
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