Turtles Can Fly filme irani-e ya khoroojieh?

It is an Iranian co-production directed by Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, shot in Iraqi Kurdistan with a mostly Kurdish cast. The film is counted among the landmark works of Iranian world cinema.

Does Turtles Can Fly have Persian dubbing on K-Time?

Yes. K-Time carries both the Persian dub and Persian subtitles for this film, so you can choose whichever you prefer when you start watching.

Koja mitoonam Lakposhtha Parvaz Mikonand ro online bebinam?

You can watch it on K-Time — open the site in your browser or on your TV or phone, log in, and press play. No VPN required, and you can cancel your subscription anytime.

Is this film suitable for children given the war setting?

The film centers on children but deals with landmines, loss, and trauma in an unflinching way. It is rated for mature audiences and is best watched by teens and adults who can engage with its emotional weight.

Lakposhtha Parvaz Mikonand

Name: Lakposhtha Parvaz Mikonand
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 2005
Duration: 98 min
Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim

Director: Bahman Ghobadi

Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim

Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha Parvaz Mikonand) is a 2005 Iranian-French-Iraqi drama and war film directed by Bahman Ghobadi, set among Kurdish refugee children on the Iraq-Turkey border in the days just before the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, weaving together survival, innocence, and the crushing weight of conflict.

What is Lakposhtha Parvaz Mikonand about?

On the dusty edge of the Iraq-Turkey border, a resourceful thirteen-year-old boy everyone calls Satellite leads a ragged band of Kurdish children in dangerous landmine-clearing work — their only income in a camp waiting nervously for the American invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. When a mysterious young woman named Agrin arrives with her quiet, armless brother and a small child in tow, Satellite is immediately drawn to her, but Agrin carries wounds that go far deeper than the war around her. The film follows these children as they scavenge, bicker, dream, and try to make sense of an adult catastrophe they did not create and cannot escape, building toward an ending that is as quiet as it is shattering.

The K-Time take

Ghobadi shot the film on location in Iraqi Kurdistan with non-professional child actors, and the rawness of that choice is visible in every frame. The film neither sensationalizes violence nor sanitizes it; instead it observes with the patience of someone who knows these roads. At the center, Soran Ebrahim's performance as Satellite — cocky, tender, ultimately helpless — gives the film its moral gravity without ever feeling scripted.

Cast & crew

Director Bahman Ghobadi is the foremost chronicler of Kurdish life in Iranian cinema, known for bringing remote border communities to international screens. Lead actor Soran Ebrahim plays Satellite with remarkable naturalism. Avaz Latif brings devastating stillness to Agrin, and the ensemble of Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim, and Ajil Zibari was drawn almost entirely from the region's actual refugee community.

Context & significance

For the Iranian diaspora, Ghobadi's film occupies a singular place: it is one of the very few Iranian productions that documents Kurdish life from the inside, told in Kurdish rather than Persian, yet firmly rooted in the tradition of Iranian socially-engaged cinema that came of age in the 1990s. Released on the eve of the Iraq War's second anniversary of reflection, it resonated globally as a document of what children inherit from history. Diaspora viewers often encounter it as a bridge — between the Persian-speaking world and its Kurdish neighbors, between art cinema and urgent witness. It was the first film ever shot inside Iraqi Kurdistan after the fall of Saddam.

Where & how to watch

Turtles Can Fly is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles. Watch on your browser, TV, or phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download. Subscribe and cancel anytime.