The Breadwinner 2017 Watch Free in HD

Saara Chaudry

Soma Bhatia

Noorin Gulamgaus

28 August 1997, Kabul, Afghanistan

31 October 1981, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

31 October 1971, Cork City, Ireland

Deborah Ellis

Anita Doron

Arizona Republic

The animation is expressive, as lush and detailed as tapestry. Harsh landscapes shimmer with beauty, even when littered with the bones of landmines and abandoned tanks.

November 30, 2017

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The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Parvana copes by telling fables of wild animals and quests-these sections are dense and vivid, paper cutouts on layered backgrounds, providing cathartic levity in a very serious movie.

December 28, 2017

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Birth.Movies.Death.

Harkening from Cartoon Saloon's earlier pursuits, Breadwinner continues the classic motif about the connective powers of storytelling.

February 16, 2018

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Minneapolis Star Tribune

Distressing as it is, the film draws you into the characters' lives.

November 30, 2017

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Pittsburgh City Paper

These excursions are exhilarating for their freedom, but also fraught with danger.

January 17, 2018

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Toronto Star

The Breadwinner is a well-crafted and inspiring story with an important message about female empowerment, embodied in heroic Parvana, something people of all ages should embrace.

November 24, 2017

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The National (UAE)

The biggest criticism of The Breadwinner for me is not one of the film itself, which is undoubtedly a triumph of storytelling, but simply that I'm not sure exactly who it intends to tell the story to.

January 25, 2018

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San Francisco Chronicle

The film is honest enough not to exaggerate the beneficial results of Parvana's courageous act.

November 29, 2017

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Village Voice

On the heels of Ann Marie Fleming's joyful animated indie Window Horses comes Nora Twomey's thematically similar but far darker The Breadwinner.

November 29, 2017

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New England Movies Weekly

A dance between exhilarating escapades and unthinkable brutality, which though largely confined to offscreen spaces nonetheless lurks over the movie like a dark cloud.

December 28, 2017

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Winnipeg Free Press

In particular, the film celebrates the stories we tell ourselves and each other - the stories that educate, encourage and inspire.

February 09, 2018

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Chicago Reader

Children must grow up fast under such circumstances, and The Breadwinner derives its lasting sense of tragedy from its consideration of how they've been stripped of their childhood. There's a sad undercurrent to Parvana's fairy tale.

January 26, 2018

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