Synopsis
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 wanderi...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (9)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Pathé Production
- Foreign production companies : ER Productions, Eagle Pictures, India Take One Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pathé Films
- French distribution : Pathé Films
Full credits (14)
- Screenwriter : Rula Jebreal
- Director of Photography : Éric Gautier
- Assistant Director : Sebastian Silva
- Editor : Juliette Welfling
- Sound Recordist : Ashi Milo
- Costume designer : Walid Maw'Ed
- Author of original work : Rula Jebreal
- Line Producers : Uzi Karin, Eyal Sadan
- Sound Assistant : Yves Coméliau
- Production Manager : Saar Datner
- Press Attaché (film) : Alexandra Schamis
- Continuity supervisor : Georgina Asfour
- Production Designer : Yoel Herzberg
- Casting : Yael Aviv
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : France, Israel, Italy, India
- Original French-language productions : No