Turtles Can Fly
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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Cast
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Soran Ebrahim
Mr. Satellite (Soran)
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Avaz Latif
Agrin
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Saddam Hossein Feysal
Pashow
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Hiresh Feysal Rahman
Hengov
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Abdol Rahman Karim
Riga
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Ajil Zibari
Shirkooh
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Bahman Ghobadi Director · Hossein Alizadeh Composer Shahriar Assadi Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $1.1M · United States release October 19, 2004 · Produced in Iran, France, Iraq
Box office
Worldwide gross
$1,075,462
Production
Bac Films
Production
Mij Film
Production
Bahman Ghobadi Films
Production
IFC Films
Studio
Iran · France · Iraq
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Languages
Original title
کیسەڵەکانیش دەفڕن
Original language
Kurdish
Spoken on screen
Arabic · English · Kurdish
Release dates
Canada · September 10, 2004
Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
United States · October 19, 2004
Premiere · Chicago International Film Festival
Greece
November 22, 2004 · Premiere · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Portugal
December 28, 2006 · Theatrical
South Korea
October 13, 2004 · Premiere · Pusan International Film Festival
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