Portland Public Library

Turtles can fly, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; IFC Films ; BAC Films ; written and directed by Bahman Ghobadi ; an Iran-Iraq joint product ; Mij Film ; production [of] Hamid Ghavami, Batin Ghobadi, Hamid Karimi, Babak Amini

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videorecording

MPAA rating: Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and mature thematic material, all involving children

Turtles can fly

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Originally produced as an Iranian/Iraqi feature film in 2004

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; IFC Films ; BAC Films ; written and directed by Bahman Ghobadi ; an Iran-Iraq joint product ; Mij Film ; production [of] Hamid Ghavami, Batin Ghobadi, Hamid Karimi, Babak Amini

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MGM DVD

In Kurdistan, Iraq, near the Turkish border, a few weeks before the U.S.-Iraq war, near an enormous refugee camp an enterprising kid nicknamed Satellite makes a living installing TV antennas, hooking up the occasional satellite connection, and hiring out a worshipful gang of boys to perform odd jobs. Mostly they remove land mines and they do a good job of the dangerous work. Some have suffered for it, but they manage. A boy known to everyone as The Boy With No Arms, gently disarms mines by removing the firing pin with his lips. The prospect of war fills everyone with dread. The children suffer first, and suffer hardest. Death might come from the sky or from the ground, or it might not come at all, but the prospect of it always lingers

Start -- Deprived from the sky -- Satellite's information -- Kid's work -- Mines for bargaining -- At her service -- Night's pain -- Important prediction -- Anticipating invasion -- Conceived abandonment -- Everything ends tomorrow -- Saddam has fallen

live action

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