MIRAL

2nd FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film Festival



MIRAL
Dir: Julian Schnabel
2010, 112 min / France, Israel, India
English
Starring: FREIDA PINTO, HIAM ABBASS, and WILLEM DAFOE



Miral is 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 opens an orphanage for refugee children that quickly becomes home to 2000 orphans. One of the children is seventeen 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.

Awards: UNESCO & UNICEF award for Julian Schnabel Award at Venice Film Festival, 2010

STARRING: FREIDA PINTO, HIAM ABBASS and WILLEM DAFOE

Screening at 2nd FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film Festival:
DECEMBER 7, 2011 6.30PM

Website: http://www.miralmovie.com/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t8E6_S9f4k

Film Courtesy: French Embassy in India






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FLASHPOINT Human Rights Film Festival
Email: flashpoint.hrff@gmail.com
Website: www.flashpointfilmfestival.com

ENTRY FREE. REGISTRATION AT VENUE

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