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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two and one-half stars. Rated PG-13. 93 minutes. Visually captivating even when it’s narratively uneven, the animated film “The Breadwinner” tells the story ...

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 ...

From the studio that made 'The Secret of Kells,' this powerful, Afghanistan-set animated film serves as an appeal for women's rights and a celebration of the creative spirit. If “The Breadwinner” were ...

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, ...

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 ...

Nora Twomey’s ‘The Breadwinner,’ executive-produced by Angelina Jolie, is a harrowing—and spellbinding—exploration of life under Taliban rule. Entertainment Critic Animation is traditionally the ...

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 ...

Based on a children's novel by Deborah Ellis and executive produced by Angelina Jolie, Nora Twomey's animated feature 'The Breadwinner' centers on a young Afghan girl's resilience in the face of ...