TURTLES CAN FLY Acquired by IFC Films
by Andre Soares
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights in all media to Bahman Ghobadi’s Iranian-Iraqi production Turtles Can Fly, winner of the Golden Shell at this year’s San Sebastián Film Festival and one of the hottest-selling titles at the American Film Market. Turtles Can Fly has also been submitted as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award.
Set in Iraq’s Kurdistan (Ghobadi was born in Baneh, in Iran’s Kurdistan) at the time of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Turtles Can Fly revolves around the lives of three children, one of whom is an expert at setting up satellite dishes. The picture stars Soran Ebrahim, Hirsh Feyssal, Avaz Latif, and other nonprofessional Kurdish children.
Ghobadi had previously directed three feature films: A Time for Drunken Horses (2000), Marooned in Iraq (2002), and Life in Fog (1999).
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