In the past few weeks, we saw our feeds being flooded with posts and messages from Afghanistan as the Taliban once again took over the country. They were messages filled with feelings of looming fear, ...

THIS beautiful, 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 ...

In this follow-up to the Breadwinner trilogy, set five years later, Ellis revisits her strong, 15-year-old heroine, now living in post-Taliban Afghanistan. The novel alternates between Parvana's ...

This lovely animated film is adapted from Deborah Ellis' 2000 international best-selling novel of the same title. It tells of an 11-year-old girl, Parvana (Saara Chaudry), growing up in Kabul, ...

If 2018 Oscar nominee The Boss Baby stands at one end of the animation spectrum, then 2018 Oscar nominee The Breadwinner is its polar opposite. If the former is formulaic, gaudy and manufactured, the ...

The year is 2001, and there is a war in Afghanistan where the Taliban is trying to rule with an iron fist. It is hard on the people who live there because their lives have been altered as we know it.

Ireland’s Cartoon Saloon has already given us two striking animated features that use simple and beautiful images to recount compelling stories designed for adults as well as youngsters. The same is ...

How do you keep your family going in Kabul when the only male provider has been imprisoned? Parvana steps up in this delightful film There’s a calmness and clarity to this engaging animation, ...

Sequel to The Breadwinner, Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis follows the eponymous 12-year-old girl who, disguised as a boy, sets off from Kabul in search of her missing mother and siblings in ...

When Parvana's handicapped father is unfairly sent to prison, she is forced to live her life as a boy in order to feed the family THIS beautiful, powerful and quite wonderful animated film tells the ...