Angelina Jolie says of new film The Breadwinner: Presents women's rights as central, burning issue

Los Angeles: Actor Angelina Jolie has said her new film, The Breadwinner, is not just “an Afghan story” but about a world in which equal rights for women remain a “central burning issue”. The Breadwinner, based on a novel by the same name from Deborah Ellis, follows a young girl in Afghanistan who disguises herself as a boy to provide for her family. [caption id=“attachment_4170563” align=“alignnone” width=“825”] Angelina Jolie has executive produced the film, The Breadwinner. Image via Facebook[/caption] The animated film is directed by Nora Twomey and executive produced by Jolie along with Mimi Polk Gitlin and Jordan Peele, reported Variety. “It’s not just an Afghan story… It’s a story of our times and a story of a world in which equal rights for women remain a central burning issue of our time,” Jolie said at the inaugural ‘Animation is Film Festival’. “There are few countries in the world where it is harder to be a young girl, where barriers between girls and their dreams and their rights are so high and so painful to experience and observe,” the actor said.