Turtles Can Fly
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
Produced by Bac Films, Mij Film Co.
A harrowing portrait of childhood destroyed by war, where children are forced into dangerous labor and trauma amid the collapse of a regime.
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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