PG-13 (for thematic material, and some violent content including a sexual assault)
Genre:
Drama
Release Date:
March 25, 2011
Running time:
114 minutes
Cast:
Hiam Abbass, Freida Pinto, Omar Metwally, Willem Dafoe, Alexander Siddig
Director:
Julian Schnabel
Producer:
Jon Kilik
Writer:
Rula Jebreal
Distributor:
The Weinstein Company
Description: "Miral" is the story of four women whose lives intertwine in the starkly human search for justice, hope and reconciliation. The story begins in war-torn Jerusalem in 1948 when Hind Husseini opens an orphanage for refugee children that quickly becomes home to 2,000 orphans. One of the children is 17-year-old Miral who arrived at the orphanage 10 years earlier, following her mother's tragic death. On the cusp of the Intifada resistance, Miral is assigned to teach at a refugee camp where she falls for a fervent political activist, Hani, and finds herself in a personal battle that mirrors the greater dilemma around her: to fight like those before her or follow Mama Hind's defiant belief that education will pave a road to peace.
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