Directed by:
Julian SchnabelScreenplay:
Rula JebrealCinematography:
Eric GautierCast:
Hiam Abbass, Willem Dafoe, Freida Pinto, Alexander Siddig, Omar Metwally, Vanessa Redgrave, Yasmine Al Massri, Makram Khoury, Shredi Jabarin, Oz Zehavi (more)Plots(1)
The story begins in war-torn Jerusalem in 1948 when Hind Husseini (Hiam Abbass) opens an orphanage for refugee children that quickly becomes home to 2000 orphans. One of the children is seventeen year old Miral (Freida Pinto) 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 (Omar Metwally) 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. (official distributor synopsis)
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