Turtles Can Fly

Starring: Kak Satellite - Soran Ebrahim, Agrinio - Avaz Latif, Henkov - Hiresh Feysal Rahman

Director: Bahman Ghobadi

In the first frame of this painfully beautiful film, we see a young girl waving rags standing on top of the cliffs, its fragile environment framed Against blue sky with clouds in the storm. A moment later she does something totally unexpected, shocking our senses. A scene that sets the tone for the rest Watchingthis open sore of a film with children of war, children of a nation, like its protagonist is an emotionally wrenching experience.

The film is set in a Kurdish community, which lives in a makeshift refugee camp on the border with Iraq. Time is a couple of weeks before the U.S. invasion. These people, refugee status in their country were waiting for decades of brutal political persecution has continued to American troops in the hope that theyLiberation brought with them (after all the 'white man "has yet to carry the weight of the Enlightenment and democracy, to support the poor masses of the Third World).

But the core of the film is the community of children, led by a teenager named precious 'Satellite', life from Eke foraging for mines left by Saddam or the United States, is out there, no matter who. If exchange these unexploded mines with a local dealer. Satellite receive a satellite dish through tradeThe radio, so that elderly people can watch Fox News, George Bush, of course after the jump and the bad channel MTV of his peers.

Soon comes a prophet in their midst ... a boy with no arms, Hankov, gloomy forecasts do with frightening precision, on a regular basis. He has with him, his sister Agrinio and a 3 year old child, which seems to be their younger brother.

Satellite is hit with Agrinio. But Agrinio ... Well struck his eyes tell of unspeakable horrors in theirPast ... Horrors that led to some impenetrable dark corner to himself.

For these children, this is not some noble triumph of the human spirit in the face of adversity. These survivors, it comes to reliability. And they do find ways to achieve this does not mean feat.

Director Bahman Ghobadi uses a combination of an unlikely gritty documentary style, with pieces of magic realism prevails. He is now before us a frighteningly realPhotos of these forgotten people to live forever on the edge of great racing games on the world stage plays.