Palestinian Film Festival 2010

The latest film by acclaimed director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and The Butterfly) Miral chronicles the story of Hind Al Husseini's effort to establish an orphanage in Jerusalem after the 1948 partition of Palestine, later to be known as the Dar el-Tifel Institute. Intenational star Freida Pinto stars as Miral, who 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 until she is assigned to teach at a refugee camp; a position that implicates her in the reality of the Palestinian struggle.