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- Release Date:February 18th, 2005
- Starring: 13 more cast & crew »
- Director:Bahman Ghobadi
- Writer:Bahman Ghobadi
- Studio:IFC Films
- Genre:Drama
- Official Site:ifcfilms.com/ifcfilms?CAT0=3127&CAT1=6266&SHID=19905&AID=10507&CLR=red&BCLR=
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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...
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