"The Breadwinner": How the universal power of animation can bring down cultural walls

You have to love Ireland’s Cartoon Saloon for keeping that most wonderful and criminally neglected (in the West) art of traditional hand-drawn animation alive.

You also have to love them for challenging Western viewers’ misconceptions of animation as a children’s media (this is the story of oppressed women running away from a violent totalitarian regime after all)... for letting women showcase their talents behind the camera (in a historically male-dominated medium) in a female-led story... for having an ethnically accurate voice cast... for shining a sympathetic light on a woefully misrepresented part of the world using the universal art of animation... for proving how wonderful European brotherhood is for film financing.. and for being ridiculously talented filmmakers who make incredible films.

And why haven’t you rushed to a cinema to see “The Breadwinner” yet I wonder?