LAKPOSTHA HAM PARVAZ MIKONAND
TURTLES CAN FLY
Bahman Ghobadis courageous, moving films chronicle life at the shifting borders of the Middle East. In Turtles Can Fly, he turns to parched, mountainous Kurdistan on the Turkish-Iraqi border immediately before the recent American invasion. From the opening shot of villagers stringing up tree-like antennae in a vain attempt to get news about the impending conflict, we find ourselves in the land of an ancient, feudal society unwillingly thrust into the hyper-modern age. Moving from town to town, fixing the electronics that keep these remote villages connected to the outside world, Satellite is a respected community leader even though he is only thirteen years old. He is also a father figure to the local children, most of whom are orphans maimed by land mines. Ironically, these same children spend their days removing unexploded ordinance from nearby fields to sell back to American forces for meagre wages. (Noah Cowan)
- Avaz Latif - Agrin
- Soran Ebrahim - Satellit
- Saddam Hossein Feysal - Pasheo
- Hiresh Feysal Rahman - Hangao
- Abdol Rahman Karim - Rega
- Ajil Zibari - Shirko
- Bahman Ghobadi
- Shahryar Assadi
- Bahman Ardalan
- Mostafa Khergheh Poush
- Haydeh Safi Yari
- Hossein Alizadeh
- Bahman Ghobadi
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