Turtles can fly
Music Video for "Turtles Can Fly"
"Another head hangs lowly, child is slowly taken
And the violence caused such silence
Who are we mistaken"
"Turtles Can Fly," the first feature film set in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, is Bahman Ghobadi's claim to fame. The Kurdish-Iranian director's third film bittersweetly chronicles the life of a village waiting for war to erupt. While adults watch events unfold on American cable-news channels, children try to make a few bucks collecting land mines. Their self-proclaimed leader, a boy called Satellite, falls in love with the enigmatic and ever-escaping Agrin, who flees the brutality of war with her armless brother and a blind toddler in tow. But tragedy, it turns out, isn't so easily outrun.(Marie Valla)
Music Video for "Turtles Can Fly"
"Another head hangs lowly, child is slowly taken
And the violence caused such silence
Who are we mistaken"
