Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite (Turkish: Uçurtmayı Vurmasınlar) is a 1989 Turkish drama film, co-written, co-produced and directed by Tunç Başaran based on a 1986 novella by Feride Çiçekoğlu [tr; ar], featuring Nur Sürer as a female political prisoner who befriends the child of a fellow inmate.

[2][3] It is currently available to legally stream with English subtitles through the German media website Pantaflix [de].

[4] When a woman is sent to prison for drug smuggling, Barış, her young son, is sent with her, as is the custom in Turkey.

A beautifully observed, tender story of the growing affection between a woman and a child who is not her own, Tunç Başaran’s film, with a screenplay by Feride Çiçekoğlu [tr; ar] based on her novel, builds an effective counterpoint between the prison world, with its discipline, intrigues and threat of violence, and the private space Inci and Barış manage to create for themselves.

"[6] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times named Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite as a highlight of the 1990 L.A. Film Festival.