Hunting Flies (Fluefangeren) is a 2016 Norwegian drama film directed and written by Izer Aliu.
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.
Hunting Flies is the directorial debut feature film of Izer Aliu, who also wrote the screenplay.
[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.
[2] Writer/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".