Turtles Can Fly

...a surface vivid enough to make it an alarm that many will hear.

Award-winning cinematographer Shahram Assadi transforms the war zone into a land of macabre opportunity.

I wish everyone who has an opinion on the war in Iraq could see Turtles Can Fly.

...the director captures the chaotic psychological turmoil of a beleaguered people mired in a hopeless cycle of dismemberment and death.

Using an entirely non-professional cast, writer-director Bahman Ghobadi (A Time For Drunken Horses) finds humanity and resilience amidst the nightmarish suffering.