The story follows Parvana after her father is arrested by the Taliban. She disguises herself as a boy to work and support her family, a well-known phenomenon in Afghanistan called ‘bacha posh’.

Based on the book of the same name by Deborah Ellis and produced by Angelina Jolie, the film follows the story of 11-year-old Parvana (Saara Chaudry), who navigates her life disguised as a boy ...

The film, based on Deborah Ellis’ young adult novel, is executive produced by Angelina Jolie. It is about Parvana’s heroic efforts to keep her family fed and to rescue her father, who is ...

The co-art director of the Oscar-nominated film "The Breadwinner" walks us through the design process of the film.

Animated in a two-dimensional, pop-up book style that’s as entrancing as Twomey’s primary aesthetic, and intertwined with Parvana’s real-world plight, this parable speaks to fiction’s ...

Anita Doron screenplay departs significantly from the version of Parvana’s story told in Ellis’ novel, and as simple and streamlined as the film manages to be at times, it lacks a certain ...

The new animated film The Breadwinner, based on the bestselling book by Canadian Deborah Ellis, tells the story of 11-year-old Parvana, at left, who disguises herself as a boy in order to support ...

Deborah Ellis’s new novel, My Name Is Parvana is a follow-up to her Breadwinner trilogy about 11-year old Parvana, who disguises herself as a boy in order to work and support her family, and her ...

It’s a feat Nooria accomplishes, in part, by appropriating Parvana’s story of the risks she ran dressed as a boy—a tale that delights the scholarship administrators and infuriates Parvana ...

Beautifully written, told with humor and perfect insight into the mind of a child, the Parvana books have a hopeful tone even while describing in grim detail the horrors of war.