Turtles Can Fly

The first time I saw this movie surprised me the harshness that sometimes seems so distant to our Western world, and yet so real in the day to day in a village ravaged by war. I was alone watching the movie, tears rolled on my face and I felt completely distraught. This film is set in a small town inhabited by Kurds, somewhere on the border between Turkey and Iraq, in times before the U.S. invasion and the fall of Saddam Hussein. All the residents are children orphans, who gather mines to be sold in clandestine markets at very low prices, as we imagine many of them have been victims of these weapons, but for them, this work is something normal. It is noteworthy that the mutilations, product of the collection of mines are not fictitious. The protagonist of this story is a teenage boy, his nicknamed is Satellite, because his job is to install antennae to pick up the signal channels internationals, this work makes it stand out among his peers, earning respect and admiration. Satellite invents a lie, said that the war has begun, so that people flee to the mountains….
This film highlights the lesser known side of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.