Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses) shot the first film in Iraq after the war about Kurdish refugees at a camp in the border of Turkey on the eve of the US invasion. It's a heartbreaking tale of children without a childhood that have to cope with their miserable lives. At the center is the 13 year old entrepreneur Satellite who installs them for villagers besides sending his gang of kids to defuse and collect landmines to sell. When a beautiful and haunted girl arrives in the camp with her armless brother, he falls for her while her brother predicts a dire future for the country. Ghobadi is one of the few filmmakers who sheds light on the heartbreaking plights of the Kurdish people who have been prosecuted for centuries by Iraq, Iran and Turkey. YRCinema's coverage of films on DVD.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Turtles Can Fly
Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses) shot the first film in Iraq after the war about Kurdish refugees at a camp in the border of Turkey on the eve of the US invasion. It's a heartbreaking tale of children without a childhood that have to cope with their miserable lives. At the center is the 13 year old entrepreneur Satellite who installs them for villagers besides sending his gang of kids to defuse and collect landmines to sell. When a beautiful and haunted girl arrives in the camp with her armless brother, he falls for her while her brother predicts a dire future for the country. Ghobadi is one of the few filmmakers who sheds light on the heartbreaking plights of the Kurdish people who have been prosecuted for centuries by Iraq, Iran and Turkey. YRCinema's coverage of films on DVD.
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