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Turtles Can Fly
US theatrical release poster
Directed byBahman Ghobadi
Written byBahman Ghobadi
Produced by
  • Babak Amini
  • Hamid Ghobadi
  • Hamid Ghavami
  • Bahman Ghobadi
Starring
  • Soran Ebrahim
  • Avaz Latif
CinematographyShahriar Assadi
Edited by
  • Mostafa Kherghehpoosh
  • Hayedeh Safiyari
Music byHossein Alizadeh
Production
companies
  • Mij Film Co.
  • Bac Film
Distributed byIFC Films (US)[1]
Release dates
  • 10 September 2004 (2004-09-10) (Toronto)
  • 18 February 2005 (2005-02-18) (United States)
  • 23 February 2005 (2005-02-23) (France)
Running time
97 minutes[2]
Countries
  • Iran
  • France
  • Iraq
LanguageKurdish
Box office$816,975[3]

Turtles Can Fly[a] is a 2004 Kurdish war drama film written, directed and co-produced by Bahman Ghobadi. The film stars Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Faysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdolrahman Karim, Ajil Zibari. The plot is about three refugee children near the Iraqi-Turkish border, awaiting for the Americans to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Turtles Can Fly was the first film to be made after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[4][5] It had its premiere at 2004 Toronto International Film Festival.

  1. ^ Kay, Jeremy (10 November 2004). "IFC takes US rights to Turtles Can Fly". ScreenDaily. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  2. ^ "TURTLES CAN FLY (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 29 November 2004. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
  3. ^ Turtles Can Fly – Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 27 February 2021
  4. ^ "ئەم فیلمە كوردیەت بینیوە كە لە 73 ڤیستیڤاڵی نێودەوڵەتی نمایشكراوە؟" [Have you seen this Kurdish movie that has been shown at 73 international festival?]. Yalla. يلا. 23 July 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  5. ^ Ghobadi, Bahman (2005). Turtles Can Fly (DVD). Culver City, California: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. ISBN 9780792867418. OCLC 61126755. 027616124142.


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