Genre : Drama
Release Date : March 25, 2011 (Limited)
Director : Julian Schnabel
Producer : Jon Kilik
Studio : The Weinstein Company
Starring : Freida Pinto, Hiam Abbass, Alexander Siddig, Omar Metwally, Vanessa Redgrave, Willem Dafoe, Yasmine Elmasri
Synopsis :
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.
