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TURTLES CAN FLY

Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand

Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
France, Iraq, 2004
Drama, War
  • 9393 minutes

Synopsis

Set in Ghobadi’s native Kurdistan, close to the Turkey-Iran border. Soran is a 13-year-old boy who orders other children around as he installs an antenna for villagers keen to hear the broadcast of Saddam Hussein’s fall…

Synopsis

Set in Ghobadi’s native Kurdistan, close to the Turkey-Iran border. Soran is a 13-year-old boy who orders other children around as he installs an antenna for villagers keen to hear the broadcast of Saddam Hussein’s fall…