Turtles Can Fly 15

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Duration:
98 mins
Year produced:
2004
Director:
Bahman Ghobadi
Cast:
Soran Ebrahim
Avaz Latif
Saddam Hossein Feysal

The first film to emerge from Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein is set a few months before that event took place, as a handful of orphaned children try and survive in a Kurdish refugee camp. Just trying to get by is a challenge in a place without running water or electricity, and where almost everywhere in sight is riddled with landmines - but that is simply what they have to do. Turtles Can Fly is a fine film that keeps its attention squarely on the people so often caught in the middle of war and upheaval - children. 

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Fascinating facts

Filmed in Iraq, this was the first film made there since the fall of Saddam Hussein