Miral (2010) - English trailer

Directed by : Julian Schnabel
Produced by : Pathé Films
Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 52 min
French release: 15/09/2010
Production year: 2010

The latest film by Julian Schnabel, director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls, and Basquiat, is the personal diary a young woman who lives in East Jerusalem, where she is constantly subjected to the consequences of occupation and war. Like his canvases composed of shards of glass, Schnabel gathers together the ephemeral fragments of Miral's world - her conception, the people who've left their mark on her life, and the difficult experiences during her early years - to paint a moving, poetic, and frank portrait of woman whose personal journey is inextricably linked with the history unfolding around her.

Miral's story, which moves in out and of different time frames and different emotional states, begins with the woman who will become her teacher: Hind Husseini (Hiam Abbass, The Visitor, Amreeka) who, in 1948, created the Dar Al-Tifel Institute, an orphanage and school for Palestinian children, in her father's house. What would you do if you found 55 orphans wandering in the street when war is raging? For Hind, the response to this question was to protect the children and to take them into a refuge where no one could harm them, and where they could learn in complete security so as to imagine a more peaceful world.

In 1978, thirty years after the cre [...]

More info: http://en.unifrance.org/movie/31304/miral