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The Breadwinner

Afghan life under religious extremism The BreadwinnerDirected by Nora TwomeyCertificate 12A, 94 minutesReleased 25 May Parvana (voiced by Saara Chaudry) is one of three girls living with her mum and dad in Kabul, Afghanistan, which is occupied and run by the Taliban. When her father is arrested by the Taliban on account of his intellectual […]

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A Quiet Passion

Nonconformist poet A Quiet PassionDirected by Terence DaviesCertificate 12a, 126 minutesReleased 7 April 2017 A stern matriarch divides a school room of young women into those who are saved on one side and those who hope to be saved on the other. This leaves Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) in the middle because she hasn’t got […]