Firecrackers is not nearly as casually joyful as its title suggests, but it is absolutely as incendiary.
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Whenever the camera tilts upwards in Firecrackers, the searing feature debut of Toronto’s Jasmin Mozaffari, the storm-threatened sky seems to mirror the film’s human intensity.
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The story is a familiar one, but Mozaffari artfully encapsulates the devastating realities of rural Canadian life, where it’s impossible to avoid abusive ex-boyfriends, where getting a good job means leaving and where a car is your ticket to freedom.
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Good Deed Entertainment has secured the U.S. distribution rights to Firecrackers, the director debut film from Jasmin Mozaffari based on her short film. The pic had its world premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival and will continue on the festival route before its US theatrical release in 2019.
Read MoreThe festival praised “Firecrackers” for “its originality in portraying the love between two friends, in its urge for freedom, autonomy, loyalty in a violent world, and bringing us to situations in a way that we have never seen before.”
It’s “a perfectly directed film where all elements come together in a unique universe of its own,” the festival added.
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Five helmers from around the world and across the genre spectrum discuss finding inspiration in true stories, the financial and artistic challenges in getting their movies made, the impact of #MeToo a year on and whether indie film as we know it has a future.
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