powerful and quite wonderful animated film tells the story of Parvana, a young girl living in Kabul under a Taliban regime. When her handicapped father is unfairly sent to prison, she is forced to ...

Depicting the horrors of living under the Taliban ... perfect for an animated feature. While a live-action director may have been tempted to adopt a grim approach to convey Parvana’s life ...

She is savagely beaten by a Taliban operative and barely makes it home. With the family’s very survival at stake, Parvana takes the extreme step of cutting off her hair, donning clothes ...

It’s a hard world for little things, and a young girl under Taliban rule in Afghanistan ... in public unaccompanied by a man, and with their patriarch gone, Parvana’s family is trapped ...

But even with that advantage, life always remain precarious with the Taliban in charge. Intercut with the realistic present-day narrative, “Breadwinner” shows us a story that Parvana is ...

Shining a ray of hope into one of the darker corners of recent history, the animated drama ... With no man at home, and Fattema and Parvana’s older sister Soraya (voiced by Shaista Latif ...

It’s hard not to flash on “Boys Keep Swinging” when one boy-disguised character in Nora Twomey’s animated ... Taliban gets wind of this subversion, they haul him off to jail and beat ...

The new animated film, The Breadwinner, is set in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in 2001, and centers on Parvana, an 11-year-old girl who cuts off her hair to disguise herself as a boy to help ...

In disguise as a male, 11-year-old Parvana develops new confidence in “The Breadwinner.” | GKIDS Share It’s a hard world for little things, and a young girl under Taliban rule in Afghanistan ...

It’s the story of Parvana, an Afghani girl living under Taliban rule who disguises herself ... A story of self-empowerment and imagination in the face of oppression, The Breadwinner also ...