Return Of The Fireflies WCFF 2025
Eco-Bitesize
•
1m 21s
Amid the motorbikes, neon cafés, and restless energy of Bali, a quiet revolution glows in the shadows. For three years, Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde and local Balinese collaborators have worked to bring back a species that had almost disappeared: the firefly. In Indonesia, these small beacons are more than creatures; they are threads of cultural memory, woven into stories, songs, and nights beneath the stars.
This short film is an intimate, luminous love story between people and nature. Each flicker in the dark is a signal, a call to a mate, a whisper of longing, a brief reunion in the night. Yet their fading glow carries a warning: we may be the last generation to witness this living light.
Shot under red light invisible to fireflies, the film enters their world without disturbance, offering a rare, unguarded view of their silent courtship. More than a document, it is a poetic call to action, imagining a kind of eco-tourism where human presence restores rather than erodes, and where the balance between people and the natural world can be rebuilt, spark by spark.
Up Next in Eco-Bitesize
-
Save The World -Music Video - Jarvis ...
Environmentalist Jarvis Smith hooks up with EDM star Rita Morar for an amazing cover of Swedish House Mafia's Save The World. With shout out's from Greta Thunberg at the very end.
-
Thank You, Sea
Our love letter to the sea - made from received stories and footage - the film recognises and celebrates everything the sea means to us - from moments of awe and wonder to times of reflection and comfort.
The sea, the big blue, the ocean - it's part of us and we need to protect it.Director: To...
-
Hot Poets - Yomi Ṣode, Chaos in the ...
Hot Poet: Yomi Ṣode
Matched with: Professor David M Schultz from the Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation, and Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester
Poem Focus: How big weather events are reportedA crisis resulting from ...
