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The Breadwinner

2017 · Animation · Nora Twomey · 1h 34m

A girl in Taliban-controlled Kabul cuts her hair and dresses as a boy so she can work and feed her family after her father is taken. Animated, with a folk tale inside it.

  • Clearly heavy
  • Clearly character-driven

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