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Plot Outline: Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of an American invasion, refugee children like 13-year-old Kak (Ebrahim), gauge and await their fate.
Plot Synopsis: Set in Ghobadi's native Kurdistan, close to the Turkey-Iran border. Soran is a 13-year-old boy who orders other children around as he installs an antenna for villagers keen to hear of Saddam's fall. Eventually, he falls for Agrin but is disturbed by her brother Henkov, who was left armless after he stepped on a landmine and who can now seemingly predict the future.
Review: Too few films capture war from the point of view of the children who endure it--perhaps because it's awful to contemplate. But Turtles Can Fly manages to be both heartbreaking and galvanizing in its depiction of young Iraqis waiting for the U.S. Army to roll over their village on the border of Turkey. A boy called Satellite (Soran Ebrahim), so called because he knows how to hook up a satellite dish, divides his time turning himself into a big operator--he commands a small army of children who search the fields for land mines they can sell to the U.N.--and wooing a pretty but haunted girl named Agrin (Avaz Latif) whose brother has no arms but can see the future. Satellite's mixture of scheming and genuine compassion drives the movie forward; it's impossible not to become engrossed in his courage and ambition, even as the world crumbles around him. Since the U.S. has linked its fate with that troubled country, learning a little about the Iraqi people would be good for everyone involved; fortunately, Turtles Can Fly is more than just an educational opportunity. Rich humor helps balance the harrowing circumstances, making the movie a riveting experience.
More Reviews:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?isindex=turtles+can+fly
IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424227/
Rating: 7.9/10 (971 votes)
Canadian Release Date (Toronto Film Festival): September 10, 2004
DVD Release Date: September 20, 2005
Awards and Nominations -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424227/awards
Specs:
Video: XviD (CVS build 2005.09.16) @ ~1944 kbps
Audio: AC3 2Ch 192 kbps
Resolution: 720 x 384
Aspect Ratio: 1.875 (15:8 )
Framerate: 23.976 fps
Qf: 0.293
Runtime: 01:37:31.226
Interleave: 96 ms (2.3 v.frames), preload=96
Audio frames: Split across interleaves
Country: Iran / France / Iraq
Language: Kurdish
Subtitles: English
I-VOPs: 1070 (0.76%)
P-VOPs: 70458 (50.22%)
B-VOPs: 68761 (49.01%)
S-VOPs: 0 (0.00%)
N-VOPs: 1 (0.00%)
Max consecutive B-VOPs: 1
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