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کیسەڵەکانیش دەفڕن · 2004

Turtles Can Fly

Bahman Ghobadi · 98 min · Iran

Drama

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.

TMDB

7.7

IMDb

8.0

RT

87%

Metacritic

85/100

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Worldwide revenue
US$1,075,462
Box office (US)
$258,578
Awards
23 wins & 8 nominations
Production companies
Bac Films, Mij Film Co., Bahman Ghobadi Films

Locations

Setting
Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Locations: Wikidata · Data: TMDB / OMDb

Cast

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