Middle Eastern Film Series: Turtles Can Fly (2005, Iraq)

Please join the Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Middle East Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government as our film series continues with one of the first films shot in post Saddam Hussein Iraq, from the acclaimed director Bahman Gobadi.

The film will be shown on Wednesday, March 12th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, in the Weiner Auditorium in the Taubman Building, KSG (click here for a map). Complimentary pizza and soft drinks will be available starting at 6:00 pm.  *Note: Please enter through the Eliot Street doors on the First Floor of the Taubman Building

Description: Lead character “Satellite” is a 13 year old boy who, through his entrepreneurialism and thrift, is the “go to” person in a Kurdish village on the Turkey-Iraq border. His business of putting up TV satellites and organizing the collection of landmines for de-mining by his fellow children are forever changed by the arrival of a clairvoyant girl and boy, and the US military.