Writer : Bahman Ghobadi Director : Bahman Ghobadi Year : 2004 Turtles can fly is a war drama, set in Iraqi-Turkish border, before the American invasion and the third feature in Ghobadi's filming career. Ghobadi relates the Turtles to the Kurdish people, and one of the characters in his movie named Hengov. The story is an insight into the refugee life in Kurdistan, a homeland that exists in the minds of the Kurd's somewhere on the border of Turkey and Iraq. The film is centralized around Hengov's sister, and a boy named Satellite as the main figures in the story, exploring through their life around the war-spoiled country. The film opens with a refugee village setting up Antenna's to receive news about the war and the arrival of American army. The people are eager to hear about the arrival of the Americans and to hear about Saddam Hussein. "Satellite", a boy who installs satellite and leads a gang of children, is the central figure, because of hi