The Breadwinner (2017) is an Academy Award Nominee (2018) for Best Animated Feature.

An animated drama film directed by Nora Twomey and executive produced by Angelina Jolie. Based on the best-selling novel by Deborah Ellis.

Parvana is an 11-year-old girl who lives under Taliban rule in Afghanistan in 2001. After the wrongful arrest of her father, Parvana cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy to support her family. Working alongside a friend, she soon discovers a new world of freedom and danger. Drawing strength from the fantastical stories she invents, Parvana embarks on an epic quest to find her father and reunite her family.

Hosted by Birds’ Eye View’s director-at-Large Mia Bays – in conversation afterwards we have: Daniel Trilling is editor of New Humanist magazine and the author of Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (Picador), and has been published in the London Review of Books, Guardian, New York Times and won a 2018 Migration Media award.

Rabia Nasimi is a former Afghan refugee who fled Afghanistan in 1999 and now campaigns for refugee rights in London, where she works for the Afghanistan and Central Asian Association (ACAA) as the organisation’s development officer.

Daniel Trilling will be selling and signing his book after.

“Brilliantly researched and written” – Observer

In Lights in the Distance, journalist Daniel Trilling draws on years of reporting to build a portrait of the refugee crisis, seen through the eyes of the people who experienced it first-hand. As the European Union has grown, so has a tangled and often violent system designed to filter out unwanted migrants – one that extends from the border into cities. Lights in the Distance is a uniquely powerful and illuminating exploration of the nature and human dimensions of the crisis.

Proceeds from the screening will be donated to the Afghanistan and Central Asian Association whose director will introduce the film.

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