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Turtles Can Fly R2 (Uk Import) - Ghobadi, Bahman
Releasedatum: 19 september 2005
Shot on location in an Iraqi refugee camp on the Turkish border, director Bahman Ghobadi's ('A Time for Drunken Horses') powerfully moving third feature is the first film to come out of Iraq since the demise of Saddam's regime. Set during the days leading up to the US invasion of Iraq, the story centres on the children struggling to survive in a harsh landscape where there are more landmines per square metre than anywhere else in the world. Soran aka 'Satellite' is the leader of these children; however, his all-business attitude is disturbed when he meets brother and sister Henkov and Agrin, whose bodies and souls have been irreparably damaged by Saddam's brutal legacy. Perhaps more potent than any documentary on the subject could ever be, 'Turtles Can Fly' is an evocative and compassionate piece of filmmaking that combines front line reportage with edifying moments of mystical symbolism. Often harsh and unforgiving in its portrait of a ravaged terrain, this is thought-provoking cinema of the very highest order.



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