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Miral

| Rating: | PG-13 (for thematic material, and some violent content including a sexual assault) |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | March 25, 2011 |
| Running time: | 114 minutes |
| Cast: | Hiam Abbass, Freida Pinto, Omar Metwally, Willem Dafoe, Alexander Siddig |
| Director: | Julian Schnabel |
| Producer: | Jon Kilik |
| Writer: | Rula Jebreal |
| Distributor: | The Weinstein Company |
Description: "Miral" is the story of four women whose lives intertwine in the starkly human search for justice, hope and reconciliation. The story begins in war-torn Jerusalem in 1948 when Hind Husseini opens an orphanage for refugee children that quickly becomes home to 2,000 orphans. One of the children is 17-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.
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