See "Miral" at the Little Theater (A film From the Palestinian Perspective)

I encourage everyone to see “Miral” at the Little Theater. It is a film from the Palestinian perspective and as a result has been attacked by most movie reviewers including the one in the City newspaper. The film is from Julian Schnabel, an academy award nominated director who also directed The Diving Bell, Butterfly, Before Night Falls, and Basquia. It begins in 1948 in war-torn Jerusalem when an orphanage is started for Palestinian children. It tells the story though lives of four women who's lives are intertwined in their respective searches for justice, hope and reconciliation during a time of war and conflict. One of the women is a 17 year old Miral who arrived at the orphanage tens years earlier due to the tragic death of her mother. She is assigned to teach in a refugee camp when the Palestinian Intifada break out and she falls for a political activist. She finds herself in a dilemma of whether to fight to like those before her or follow her mentor who believed in education as a path to peace.