Turtles Can Fly
- 2004
- Iran/Iraq
- 97 min
- 15
- Directed by: Bahman Ghobadi
- Written by: Bahman Ghobadi
- Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif
The first feature film to emerge from Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the anguished Turtles Can Fly is set in a refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border, just before the US invasion in the spring of 2003. It vividly but humanely immerses the viewer in the nightmarish realities of daily existence in this makeshift community, which is situated amidst a forbidding natural landscape.
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