Iranian Cinema
Turtles Can Fly
لاکپشتها هم پرواز میکنند
Bahman Ghobadi·2004·Kurdish
Kurdish refugee children scavenge for mines on the Iraq-Turkey border before the 2003 invasion.
Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly follows children collecting mines on the Iraq-Turkey border. Non-professional actors who lived it. First film in Iraq after Saddam's fall. Cinema as witness.
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