Independent Film Series: Turtles Can Fly

Rated PG-13

As a group of Kurdish youngsters living near the Iraq-Turkey border awaits word of Saddam Hussein’s defeat by American forces, they ponder their uncertain futures. While one of the adolescents works to obtain a TV satellite dish for news of the impending U.S. invasion, three orphans—including a young boy left armless by a mine who now defuses mines with his teeth—try to make sense of the devastation that surrounds them. Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi’s thought-provoking drama stars Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, and Saddam Hossein Feysal.