Parvana

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By Nora Twomey

In Afghanistan, under the Taliban regime, 11-year-old Parvana's life is turned upside down the day her father is imprisoned by the Taliban. She decides to cut her hair and dress as a boy to help her family.

Parvana by Nora Twomey © DR

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Territoires cinématographiques is a space for dialogue between live performance and cinema, devised in conjunction with Avignon's Utopia cinemas. It's a daily programme of film screenings after which the public can meet and talk with directors, choreographers, filmmakers, researchers and critics invited to the Festival d'Avignon. It's a space designed to explore the intimate relationships that these speakers maintain between disciplines and the world. It's a space where we can take a closer look, from the small to the large, at the themes that are brought to life on stage, on screen and under the plane trees of the Café des idées.

Parvana

By Nora Twomey // Ireland // 2018 // 1h34 // In French

In Afghanistan, under the Taliban regime, 11-year-old Parvana's life is turned upside down the day her father is imprisoned by the Taliban. She decides to cut her hair and dress as a boy to help her family.

For children aged 8 and upwards.

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