Turtles Can Fly

Name: Turtles Can Fly
Genre: Drama
Released: 2006-12-28
Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim

20061h 38mMovie

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.

Drama
Suicide
Rape
Muslim
Refugee
Village
Landmine
Tank
Bicycle

Where to watch

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Sooner

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Cast

Soran EbrahimMr. Satellite (Soran)
Avaz LatifAgrin
Saddam Hossein FeysalPashow
Hiresh Feysal RahmanHengov
Abdol Rahman KarimRiga
Ajil ZibariShirkooh

Details

Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Writers: Bahman Ghobadi
Release date: December 28, 2006
Runtime: 1h 38m
Box office: $1.1M worldwide
Original language: Kurdish
Studios: Bac Films, Mij Film, Bahman Ghobadi Films

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Platform	Score	Points
IMDb21K votes	8	8 pts
Rotten Tomatoes	87%	9 pts
Metacritic	85	10 pts
Letterboxd	not available	skipped

Platform	Score	Points
IMDb21K votes	8	8 pts
Rotten Tomatoes	87%	9 pts
Metacritic	85	10 pts
Letterboxd	not available	skipped