"This unusual program highlights the talents of two major discoveries. Fireflies is an extraordinarily accomplished first feature about a ten-year-old girl who lives in a mountain village with her father. Her loneliness at her father's constant absence at work is alleviated when one day he brings home a young boy who has run away from an orphanage. The two children spend the day reading, playing, or simply watching the rain fall. The next day, her companion gone, the little girl is no longer lonely because she now has a friend. David Dzanelidze, this film's young director, shares with his Georgian countrymen like Otar Iosseliani (Pastorale, Favorites of the Moon), Eldar Shengelaya (Blue Mountains) and Georgi Shengelaya (Journey of a Young Composer) the talent of making films with the eye of a poet." Peter Scarlet