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Title 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.
ترتلس ن فلى [ودرردنگ] / مترگلدوىنمىر ؛ اف فلمس ؛ ب فلمس ؛ ورتن اند درتد بى بهمن غبد ؛ ان ارنارق جنت پردت ؛ مج فلم ؛ پردتن [ف] همد غوم، بتن غبد، همد کرم، ببک امن.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : MIJ Film ; Culver City, CA : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Video  PN1995.9.F67 T87 2005    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
stereo
surround
Dolby
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
System Details DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital stereo surround; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1, for 16:9 televisions.
Cast Avaz Latif (Agrin), Soran Ebrahim (Satellite), Saddam Hossein Feysal (Pasheo), Hiresh Feysal Rahman (Hangao), Abdol Rahman Karim (Rega), Ajil Zibari (Shirko).
Credits Director of photography, Shahriar Assadi ; editors, Mostafa Khergheh Poosh, Hayedeh Safi Yari ; music, Hossein Ali Zadeh.
Note Title from subtitles, credits from MIJ Film website (http://mijfilms.com/feature-films/turtles-can-fly/).
Event Originally produced as an Iranian/Iraqi feature film in 2004.
Audience MPAA rating: Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images and mature thematic material, all involving children.
Summary 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.
Contents 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.
Note Special features: Previews (8 min.).
Language In Kurdish, with optional subtitles in English; closed-captioned.
Subject Teenage boys -- Drama.
Teenage boys.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Refugee children -- Drama.
Refugee children.
Teenage boys -- Conduct of life -- Drama.
Teenage boys -- Conduct of life.
Entrepreneurship -- Drama.
Entrepreneurship.
Refugee camps -- Drama.
Refugee camps.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Drama.
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Kurds -- Iran -- Drama.
Kurds.
Iran.
Kurds -- Iraq -- Drama.
Iraq.
Kurdistan -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Fiction films.
Motion pictures, Kurdish.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Ghobadi, Bahman, screenwriter, director, producer.
Ghavami, Hamid, producer.
Ghobadi, Batin, producer.
Karīmī, Ḥamīd, producer.
Amini, Babak, producer.
Latif, Avaz, actor.
Ebrahim, Soran, actor.
Feysal, Saddam Hossein, actor.
Rahman, Hiresh Feysal, actor.
Karim, Abdol Rahman, actor.
Zibari, Ajil, actor.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
IFC Films.
B.A.C. Films.
Mizh Fīlm (Firm)
MGM Home Entertainment Inc.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
Note Transliterated title from IMDb: Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand
ISBN 0792867416
9780792867418
Standard No. 027616928559
027616124142
Music No. 1008866 MGM Home Entertainment