Turtles Can Fly and Tales of Lost Youth:An Interview With Bahman Ghobadi

Trbic provides an overview of Ghobadi's work and discusses his film Turtles Can Fly as a return to the world of Kurdish teenagers whose lives are untouched by the joys of peaceful childhood. The interview focuses on Ghobadi's background and education, Kurdish suffering as the central poetic motif in his films and his views on the situation in the present day Iranian cinema.