Miral (2011)

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• Project Phase: Completed
• Release Date: 2011-03-25 - NY and/or LA
• Distributor(s): The Weinstein Company
• Film Genre(s): Drama
• Country: France
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This is based on Rula Jebreal's book about the real-life Palestinian woman Hind Husseini, who started the Dar Al-Tifl orphanage in Jerusalem in the wake of the 1948 partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel. Jerusalem, 1948. On her way to work, Husseini comes across 55 orphaned children in the street. She takes them home to give them food and shelter. Within six months, 55 had grown to almost 2000, and the Dar Al-Tifel Institute was born. At the age of 7, Miral was sent to the Institute by her father following her mother’s death. Brought up safely inside the Institute’s walls, she is naïve to the troubles that surround her. Then, at the age of 17, she is assigned to teach at a refugee camp where she is awakened to the reality of her people’s struggle. When she falls for political activist, Hani (Omar Metwally), she finds herself torn between the fight for the future of her people and Mama Hind’s belief that education is the road to peace.

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