Turtles Can Fly (2004)
Director: Bachmann Gobadi
Genre: Drama / War
Country/Region of Production: Iran / France / Iraq
Language: Kurdish
Release: 2004-09-10
Runtime: 98 min
Synopsis
In the border area between Iran and Turkey, years of war and foreign invasions have led to a scorched earth and a lack of livelihood for the people. In order to survive, the teenagers even picked up mines for money, and due to the lack of safety protection measures, they lost limbs and even lives in the sudden explosion. Satellite (Soran Ebrahim) is the king of the children here, he leads his friends to live a turbulent life, and witnesses the irreparable trauma that the war has brought to the children's spirits and bodies...
Awards
The film won the Crystal Bear Special Recommendation Award and the Peace Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival 2005, the Golden Dove Award at the 2005 Fateróia-Tróia International Film Festival, the Humanitarian Award at the 2004 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, the Golden Butterfly Best Film Award at the 2004 Isprahan International Youth Film Festival, the Audience Award and Best Picture Award at the 2005 Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival, the Audience Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2005, CEC Award for Best Film and Golden Shell Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival 2005, Audience Award and Honor award at the 2004 São Paulo International Film Festival.
Wonderful stills
Movie-going experience
After watching 95 minutes, there are many Kurdish teenagers in the movie screen: Riga, a young boy whose eyes are not good and often hangs on the neck of his brother and "sister", Hankov who can also pick up a landmine with his mouth with his broken arms, Paxiu who runs fast with a broken leg on crutches, Wang Satellite, a child who is busy pretending to be a satellite who can speak a few words in English, Sarakon, a die-hard fan of the satellite, who always conscientiously performs all the big and small tasks arranged by the satellite, and cries when he is not finished. And the girl in red, Agne, whose eyes were always silent and filled with sorrow that a girl of her age could not bear, each of them could incriminate the full cruelty of the Iraq War without words or with her body alone.
Satellite fell in love with Aglene at first sight, and twice jumped into the river of misfortune to find the redfish, but to no avail; In order to save her "brother" Riga was injured in the leg by a landmine, the usually omnipotent big boy was carried home, he drove away all his partners, and one person cried out in pain, and we remembered that he was just a 15-year-old boy.
Agne always carried Riga on her back, but the look in her eyes was full of resentment, and she didn't want to get rid of him all the time. Riga was not her brother, the after-effect of her defiling of the U.S. military, her child. Whenever I see Riga, I have to think of the humiliation of being ruined. How can you not hate? Aggreen tied Riga to a tree near the minefield, that time Riga was rescued by satellites, and once again Agne tied Riga to a rock and threw him into the river, this time he was really gone. Then, Agne herself walked to the edge of the cliff, took off her blue-purple slippers, and jumped down...
His brother Hankov cried to death, he was a child who would prophesy about the future. Every prophecy will be accompanied by misfortune, and this time he predicts that everything will end the next day. So the American soldiers came. Satellite used to think that when the American soldiers came, they had hope, but when the American soldiers really came, he turned around on crutches, he knew that everything would only get worse, there was no hope, only endless despair...
After watching the movie, I could not speak, only wordless sorrow. Cherish our era of peace!