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DESCRIPTION:Special Film Screening of "Miral" to benefit the Middle East Program of the 
 Resource Center for Nonviolence.\n\nThis Sunday April 10, 11:00a.m. \nAt 
 the Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz\n$10-$25 suggested 
 donation.\n\n From Julian Schnabel, director of "The Diving Bell and the 
 Butterfly” comes "Miral," the visceral first-person diary of a young girl 
 growing up in East Jerusalem as she confronts the effects of occupation and 
 war in every corner of her life. The film presents a moving portrait of 
 women whose personal stories are woven into the bigger history unfolding 
 around them, and a starkly human search for justice, hope and 
 reconciliation amid a world overshadowed by conflict, rage and war.\n\n 
 Film is rated pg-13.For more info on the film “Miral”: 
 www.miralmovie.com\n\n For more info about the special film screening, call 
 831-23-1626 or www.rcnv.org\n\n------MORE FILM 
 INFORMATION:\n"MIRAL"\nSYNOPSIS: From Julian Schnabel, director of "The 
 Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "Before Night Falls" and "Basquiat," comes 
 "Miral," the visceral, first-person diary of a young girl growing up in 
 East Jerusalem as she confronts the effects of occupation and war in every 
 corner of her life. Schnabel pieces together momentary fragments of Miral's 
 world-how she was formed, who influenced her, all that she experiences in 
 her tumultuous early years-to create a raw, moving, poetic portrait of a 
 woman whose small, personal story is inextricably woven into the bigger 
 history unfolding all around her.            \n      Miral's story, which 
 shifts sinuously through layers of time and emotions, begins with the woman 
 who will become her teacher. Hind Husseini (HIAM ABBASS, "The Visitor," 
 "Amreeka"), who in 1948 turned her father's home into the Dar Al-Tifel 
 Institute, an orphanage and school for Palestinian children. What would you 
 do if you found 55 orphans wandering the streets in the middle of a 
 war-torn city? For Hind, the answer was to protect them, draw a line around 
 them and make a safe haven where they could not be harmed, and where they 
 could learn in safety and begin to imagine a more peaceful world.           
  \n      In 1978, years after Hind starts the school, a 5 year-old girl 
 arrives at the Institute in the wake of her mother's tragic death. This is 
 Miral (FREIDA PINTO, "Slumdog Millionaire"), and this is her story. She 
 will grow up sheltered inside the protective walls of Dar-Al-Tifl, but then 
 at the age of 16, on the cusp of the Intifada, Miral is assigned to teach 
 at a refugee camp where she is awakened to the anger and struggles that 
 seem to be her legacy. When she falls for a fervent political activist, 
 Hani (OMAR METWALLY, "Munich," "Rendition"), Miral is drawn into a personal 
 dilemma: to choose a path of violence or to follow Mama Hind's hard-fought 
 belief that education is the only way to pursue lasting peace.            
 \n            Jerome Seydoux presents "Miral," a film by Julian Schnabel, 
 starring Hiam Abbass, Freida Pinto, Yasmine Al Massri, Ruba Blal, Alexander 
 Siddig, Omar Metwally, Stella Schnabel, Willem Dafoe and Vanessa Redgrave. 
 The screenplay is by Rula Jebreal, based on her semi- autobiographical book 
 of the same name. The producer is Jon Kilik. Francois Xavier Decraene is 
 the executive producer. This film is a French-Israeli-Italian-Indian 
 Co-Production of Pathe, ER Productions. Eagle Pictures and India Take One 
 Productions, with the participation of Canal + and Cinecinema.            
 \n      RATED PG-13.  MIRAL was released in NY and LA on Friday, March 25th 
 and will be released in Washington, DC theaters on Friday, April 
 1st.\n\nwww.miralmovie.com\nFor more information on the special screening, 
 call 831-423-1626, www.rcnv.org.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/06/18676506.php
SUMMARY:"Miral" Film Screening to benefit the Middle East Program of the RCNV
LOCATION:Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/06/18676506.php
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