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Bahman Ghobadi confirms his place as the poet laureate of Kurdish cinema with “Turtles Can Fly,” an engrossing, nuanced pic about orphaned children in a refugee camp on the Iraq-Turkish border just prior to the 2003 U.S.

invasion of Iraq. Even more than in his very fine “A Time for Drunken Horses” and “Marooned in Iraq,” Ghobadi in this pic displays a complete command of his art as he shifts between — and even blends — wrenching tragedy and amusing comedy.

Atop one of them is a lanky, nerdy boy, with oversize glasses and a backward baseball cap, whose nickname is Satellite (Soran Ebrahim).

Atop one of them is a lanky, nerdy boy, with oversize glasses and a backward baseball cap, whose nickname is Satellite (Soran Ebrahim).

Satellite (Soran Ebrahim) organizes children into work gangs, disarming and selling land mines to arms dealers.

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Despite the fact that Kurdish teenager Soran Ebrahim and his scampish cohorts make a living collecting landmines, Ghobadi still manages to.

An excellent fest run seems assured, and aud interest in seeing another side of Iraq should spur considerable commercial interest in the West.

As Abbas Kiarostami’s former assistant, Ghobadi understands the power of stark, stripped-down images on screen, and he comes up with a stunner at pic’s start: A squad of boys is seen hoisting giant TV antennae above their heads so their makeshift tent village can receive news from the outside world.

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