
Turtles Can Fly(2004)
Turtles Can Fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iraq border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.


Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who has bad news about her sister Dilan.

Almila Bağrıaçık
Rojda Xani
Zübeyde Bulut
Berivan

Maryam Boubani
Ferhat Xani

Christoph Letkowski
Alex Breidmeier
Gonca de Haas
Dilan

Niels-Bruno Schmidt
Fuhrmann

Yiannis Niarros
Officer Dimitri

Lucas Prisor
Tom
Kostas Bazas
Officer Costas
Ceylan Bulus
Rozerin Mafakhery
Sisters Apart is a drama, war film released in 2021 exploring themes of refugee camp, iraq, female soldier, kurdistan, german soldier, military training. Directed by Daphne Charizani, it stars Almila Bağrıaçık, Zübeyde Bulut, Maryam Boubani. Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who has bad news about her sister Dilan.
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