Turtles Can Fly

Turtles Can Fly

Turtles Can Fly

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2006

Release Year

98 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

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.

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Keywords

suicide

rape

muslim

refugee

village

landmine

tank

bicycle

iraq

dead child

orphan

soldier

kurdistan

children in wartime

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Cast

Soran Ebrahim

Soran Ebrahim

Mr. Satellite (Soran)

Avaz Latif

Agrin

Saddam Hossein Feysal

Pashow

Hiresh Feysal Rahman

Hengov

Abdol Rahman Karim

Abdol Rahman Karim

Riga

Ajil Zibari

Shirkooh

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9.0avg rating

griggs79

griggs79

June 23, 2025

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9/10

_Turtles Can Fly_ is a haunting anti-war film set in a Kurdish refugee camp before the 2003 Iraq invasion. Shot with real refugee children, it captures displacement with raw authenticity. “Satellite,” a savvy teen, leads landmine-clearing kids with dry humour and grit. The performances, shaped by li…