TY - ADVS AU - Ghobadi,Bahman AU - Alizadeh,Hossain ED - IranianMovies.com (Firm) TI - Lākpushtʹhā ham parvāz mīkunand: Turtles also fly AV - PN1997.2 .L3578 DVD PY - 2005///, [2004] CY - [Santa Monica, Calif.], [Culver City, Calif.] PB - MGM Home Entertainment, Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment KW - Children KW - Iran KW - Social conditions KW - Drama KW - Kurds KW - Motion pictures, Iranian KW - Feature films KW - Foreign films N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 2004; MPAA rating: PG-13; Director of photography, Shahriyār Asadī ; editor, Mustafá Kharqahʹpūsh ; music, Ḥusayn ʻAlīzādah; Cast: Sūrān Ibrāhīm, Hīrsh Fayṣal Raḥmān, Avāz Latīf, ʻAbd al-Rahmān Karīm, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn Fayṣal, Ājīl Zībārī N2 - Set in a refugee camp on the Iran-Iraq border in 2003 just prior to the US invasion, the film shows the refugees' obsession with acquiring a satellite dish to keep abreast of America's plans. Thirteen-year-old Satellite, the accepted leader of the kids in the camp, finally acquires the equipment they need by trading in the land mines the children have cleared from the area. On meeting Henkov, a boy from a neighboring village and a landmine victim himself, Satellite discovers Henkov's prophetic powers, which turn out to be more reliable than twenty first century technology ER -