Movie of the day: Turtles Can Fly

Bahman Ghobadi has made the silent screams of children growing up in a war environment heard by dedicating Turtles Can Fly to “all the innocent children in the world, the casualties of the policies of dictators and fascists.” The film tells us the stories of children, who grow up in minefield, earn a living by collecting and selling the mines in the region. Many of these children have lost limbs to landmines. Turtles Can Fly shows the war through the eyes of children. The film is set in the Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraq–Turkey border on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq and it is about refugee children. One of the children is thirteen-year-old Soran, known by the alias Kak Satellite. He is known for his installation of dishes and antenna for the villagers who are looking for news about Saddam Hussein. Then, we learn the stories of three children: Agirin, Riga, and Hengov.