Games Without Frontiers

Published April 27, 2005

Children are the centre of attention in Turtles Can Fly, though the game they play is hardly the safest or most fun. Iranian-Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi tells this urgently relevant and sombre tale of a group of children living in a refugee camp in a Kurdistan village, on the Iraqi-Turkish border. The children­ already maimed by landmines ­ spend their days finding unexploded devices and selling...