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Mexico The Critic The Rivera Murals The Casa Azul Jet-lag Festival Screening The Trotsky Museum Exile Profound Mexico Hope Rain on canvas The Jury The Anthropological Museum Time Political Correctness Two Houses False Virtue Life is a miracle Weird Roots The Meeting Turtles Can Fly The Oscars Luis Barragans house Back to Diary Index |
Turtles Can Fly The outstanding viewing experience for all of us on the jury was the film by Bahman Ghobadi, ‘Turtles Can Fly’; a story of Kurdish children living in a refugee camp on the borders of By the end of the festival a strange theme has emerged in many of the films; children forced to ‘parent’ their own dysfunctional parents. It is like witnessing a generation robbed of their childhoods, mopping up their parents’ mistakes. back next |
SP on Keren Yedaya’s lap with Maria Novaro and Montse ’Turtles Can Fly’ ’Turtles Can Fly’ |
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