Miral Trailer
From Julian Schnabel, Academy Award nominated director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls and Basquiat, comes Miral, the story of four women whose lives intertwine in the starkly human search for justice, hope and reconciliation amid a world overshadowed by conflict, rage and war. The story begins in war-torn Jerusalem in 1948 when Hind Husseini (Hiam Abbass, The Visitor, Amreeka) opens an orphanage for refugee children that quickly becomes home to 2000 orphans. One of the children is seventeen year old Miral (Freida Pinto, Slumdog Millionaire) 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, Munich, Rendition) 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.
Miral was released March 25th, 2011 and stars Hiam Abbass, Freida Pinto, Yasmine Elmasri, Omar Metwally, Alexander Siddig, Ruba Blal, Willem Dafoe, Vanessa Redgrave. The film is directed by Julian Schnabel.
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CUPID
Powerful looking movie.
2 years agoby @cupidFlag
Summit10
i do remember a film about an orphanage gone wrong The Devil's Backbone by Guillermo Del Toro, this one will have the same caliber :)
2 years agoby @summit10Flag
JonSpidey07
I'll pass
the early reviews on RottenTomatoes havent been so kind
its a shame cause Id like to see Freida in other things
2 years agoby @jonspidey07Flag
Bawnian©-Dexeus
Dafoe makes any character look good.
2 years agoby @bawnian-dexeusFlag
skywise
I am willing to give anything with Dafoe a chance. What a chameleon of an actor!
2 years agoby @skywiseFlag
Courtney O.
This looks heavy and interesting
2 years agoby @chickflickFlag