Turtles Can Fly

Name: Turtles Can Fly
Genre: Drama
Released: 2004-09-10
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim

کیسەڵەکانیش دەفڕن (2004)

Timing: 1:38 (98 min)

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Release date

2004-09-10

Country

Iran, France, Iraq

Production

Bac Films, Mij Film Co., Bahman Ghobadi Films

Genre

Drama

Budget

Revenue

$1 075 462

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Director

Bahman Ghobadi

Actors

Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim, Ajil Zibari, Emre Tetikel
All actors and roles (7)

Scenario

Producer

Bahman Ghobadi, Batin Ghobadi, Hamid Ghavami, Babak Amini, Abbas Ghazali

Operator

Shahriar Assadi

Composer

Hossein Alizadeh

Artist

Bahman Ghobadi

Audition

Editing

Hayedeh Safiyari, Mostafa Kherghehpoosh
All team (15)

Short description

Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.

What's left behind the scenes

Many of the children who appeared in the film were, in fact, refugees.
The fish that periodically appears in the film is one of the symbols of Nowruz – the New Year holiday according to the astronomical solar calendar among Iranian and Turkic peoples. Nowruz is celebrated from March 21st to 23rd, and on March 20th, 2003, the US and its allies invaded Iraq and launched the war that the film discusses.