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An animated fantasy adventure film, Wolfwalkers (2020), was co-directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart. Set in Ireland during 1650, the townspeople of Kilkenny are ordered by the authoritarian Lord Protector to clear the woods near their town, resulting in tension with a wolf pack. Bill Goodfellowe, an English hunter, has been summoned to Kilkenny with his daughter Robyn to eliminate the wolves. In a bid to help her father, Robyn secretly follows him out of town with her pet falcon, Merlyn. Accidently shooting Merlyn while trying to kill a wolf causes Robyn to track down ...

The Breadwinner (2017), an animated drama from Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon and directed by Nora Twomey, is based on the best-selling novel by Deborah Ellis. It was jointly produced by Canada, the Republic of Ireland, and Luxembourg. The story follows Parvana, an 11-year-old girl living in Kabul during the rise of the Taliban and the start of the War on Terror. Her father, Nurullah, used to be a school teacher but became a hawker after losing his leg in the Soviet–Afghan War. One evening during dinner, he is wrongly arrested by Idrees – a young member of ...