Turtles Can Fly
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Bahman Ghobadi
Ajil Zibari
Soran Ebrahim
Olivier Gourmet
Hiresh Feysal Rahman
Avaz Latif
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In a village in Iraqi Kurdistan, on the border between Iran and Turkey, the villagers desperately seek for a satellite dish antenna in order to keep updated on the impending attack of the Americans in Iraq. Coming from another village with his younger sister and her child, a mutilated boy has a foreboding: the war is getting closer and closer.
Director
Bahman Ghobadi
Cast
Ajil Zibari
Soran Ebrahim
Olivier Gourmet
Hiresh Feysal Rahman
Avaz Latif
Morgan Marinne
Abdol Rahman Karim
Saddam Hossein Feysal
Crew
Hossein Alizadeh
Bahman Ardalan
Shahriar Assadi
Abbas Ghazali
Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi
Shahram Shah Hosseinie
Moustafa Khergheposh
Hayedeh Safiyari
Bahram Sarbazi
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Golden Shell award for Best Film at the 2004 San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Winner of the Tiscali Audience Award at the 2005 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Released in United States 2005
Released in United States on Video September 20, 2005
Released in United States September 2004
Released in United States Winter February 18, 2005
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival January 26-February 6, 2005.
Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival September 17-25, 2004.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival September 9-18, 2004.
Released in United States 2005 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival January 26-February 6, 2005.)
Released in United States Winter February 18, 2005
Released in United States September 2004 (Shown at San Sebastian International Film Festival September 17-25, 2004.)
Released in United States September 2004 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival September 9-18, 2004.)
Released in United States on Video September 20, 2005
