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    Fireflies short film
    UK Film Review
    • Feb 6, 2017
    • 3 min

    Fireflies short film

    Directed by Raouf Zaki Starring Essam Ferris, Mitch Fortier, Nour Bitar and Rina Hasani Short Film Review by Chris Olson In what couldn’t be more perfectly timed, short film Fireflies, directed by Raouf Zaki and written by Charles Hall, captures the intense and bleak societal tension existing in the U.S. (and other Western countries) between communities and Islam. This is done with subtlety and grace, but is no less effective in revealing the inherent legacy of years of scare
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