The Swallows of Kabul's reviews
Media reviews
El Periódico
"'The Swallows of Kabul' resembles the strips from a comic made in watercolors that comes alive to explain to us the cruelty but at the same time the hope".
Cinemanía
"One of the most surprising things from 'Swallows of Kabul', adaptation from Yasmina Kadra's novel, is how its watercolors don't evoque softness or sweetness!.
ABC
"The animation style is more stylized than realistic and the «abstraction» done in the backgrounds and details is the same that the context and the plot in which the action takes place suffer from".
Screen Daily
"This tale of repression and injustice is potent enough to overcome the inevitable distancing that occurs because of the animation process".
Variety
"As a medium, animation suits this adaptation well; it would have been nearly impossible to shoot as live fiction or on location. Here the drawings communicate quickly what took several pages of description and dialogue to express in the novel".
Cineuropa
"'The Swallows of Kabul' is an aesthetically and narratively beautiful example of the affecting power of essential, humanist, and feminist ideas that auteur animation offers, and which can reach broader audiences of both adult and younger viewers".
El País
"The drawings give distance and nuance to show what in another way would be close to visual infamy".