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Turtles Can Fly
2004
· Movie
· 98 min
A
MEANRANK
82/100
Every rating
74–94
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 74, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 94.
See the most agreed on films →Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
Details
- Director
- Bahman Ghobadi
- Writer
- Bahman Ghobadi
- Studio
- Bac Films, Mij Film, Bahman Ghobadi Films
- Released
- 28 December 2006
- Country
- Iran, France, Iraq
- Language
- ku
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Box office
- $1.1M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 2 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →0 wins from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 2005 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Iran | Nominee |
| Satellite Award 2005 | Best Foreign Language Film | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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2 awards — Turtles Can Fly
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International Submission to the Academy Awards
1 nomination
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Iran | Nominee |
Satellite Award
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Language Film | Nominee |