Bani Khoshnoudi was born in Tehran, Iran and raised in Texas. Her work includes the short film “Transit” (2005), the feature documentary A People in the Shadows (2008) and the narrative feature Ziba (2012), selected for an artist-in-residence-programme at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Cinéfondation Writing Residency of the Cannes Film Festival. Fireflies (2018) premiered at the Morelia International Film Festival.