Turtles Can Fly

Turtles Can Fly (2006)

کیسەڵەکانیش دەفڕن

Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

Date of release
2006-12-28
TMDB
7.8 / 10 (250)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama
Director
Bahman Ghobadi

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 2

Turtles Can Fly is a 2004 Iranian-Kurdish war drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Bahman Ghobadi. The film stars Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Faysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdolrahman Karim, Ajil Zibari. The plot revolves around three refugee children near the Iraqi-Turkish border, waiting for the Americans to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Production

2 weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Ghobadi filmed a few scenes for the film on his camcorder in Iraq. He was inspired to make the film by observing the footage of children he had recorded, returning to the country illegally because the crew was not granted permission to enter. The crew, each possessing a small camera, searched the northeastern area of Iraq for actors and locations.

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