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Turtles Can Fly

2006 · 98 min

A harrowing, unsentimental plunge into children surviving war, mixing raw immediacy with quiet devastation and fleeting moments of resilience.

Directed by: Bahman Ghobadi
Genres: Drama
Starring: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal

Overview: 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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Directed by: Bahman Ghobadi
Genres: Drama
Starring: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: war
trauma
survival
grief
isolation
Places: countryside
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	3
Horror	5
Humour	3
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	9
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	10

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Bahman Ghobadi
Written by: Bahman Ghobadi
Starring: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim, Ajil Zibari
Music: Hossein Alizadeh
Cinematography: Shahriar Assadi
Runtime: 98 min
Country: Iran, France, Iraq
Languages: Kurdish, English, Arabic

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