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Award-Winning Kurdish Film Reaches U.S. Theaters

Soran Ebrahim plays Soran in the Kurdish film <i>Turtles Can Fly</i>.
Soran Ebrahim plays Soran in the Kurdish film Turtles Can Fly.

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