

Turtles Can Fly
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $1.1M
- Language
- Kurdish
- suicide
- rape
- muslim
- refugee
- village
- landmine
- tank
- bicycle
- iraq
- dead child
- orphan
- soldier
Top billed cast
Behind the camera
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereChicago International Film Festival19 Oct 2004
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival10 Sept 2004
GreeceGR
- PremiereThessaloniki International Film Festival22 Nov 2004
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1628 Dec 2006
South KoreaKR
- PremierePusan International Film Festival13 Oct 2004
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Turtles Can Fly was released on 28 December 2006.
Audience reviews
1- G9/10
griggs79
6/23/2025
_Turtles Can Fly_ is a haunting anti-war film set in a Kurdish refugee camp before the 2003 Iraq invasion. Shot with real refugee children, it captures displacement with raw authenticity. “Satellite,” a savvy teen, leads landmine-clearing kids with dry humour and grit. The performances, shaped by lived trauma, hit hard. The final moments are devastating but never exploitative. Not an easy watch—unforgettable and vita…
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