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Original title: Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand
Release Date
• USA: Feb 18, 2005
• UK: 7 Jan 2005
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 20, 2005
Official Website:
Turtles Can Fly Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and mature thematic material, all involving children.
Running Time
1 hour, 38 minutes
Country Iran, France, Iraq
Studio IFC Films
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Genre: Drama, Experimental
Plot: "Turtles Can Fly" is the third feature from internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi ("A Time For Drunken Horses"). Written, directed and produced by Ghobadi, the film features of cast of local non-actor children."Turtles Can Fly" is set in Ghobadi’s native Kurdistan on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq. Thirteen-year-old Soran (Soran Ebrahim) is known as “Satellite,” for his installation of dishes and antennae for local villages looking for news of Saddam. He is the dynamic leader of the children, organizing the dangerous but necessary sweeping and clearing of the minefields. He then arranges trade-ins for the unexploded mines. The industrious Satellite falls for an unlikely orphan (Avaz Latif), a sad-faced girl traveling with her brother Henkov (Hirsh Feyssal), who appears to have the gift of clairvoyance. The siblings are care-taking a three-year-old, whose connection to the pair is discovered as harsh truths are unveiled. The devastation to this land and its inhabitants is revealed in the matter-of-fact perspective of the children and is equally displayed with every poignant detail of its unbearable nature. The exquisitely haunting mountains play backdrop to violence and tragedy, but at the same time the heart and humor of the children is an
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Bahman Ghobadi
Time for Drunken Horses, Marooned In Iraq, Bad ma ra khahad bord |
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| Written by |
Bahman Ghobadi
Bad ma ra khahad bord, Time for Drunken Horses, Blackboards |
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