Miral

Miral(2011)
Director:Julian Schnabel
Country:France/Israel
Runtime:112min



From Julian Schnabel, Academy Award (C) nominated director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls and Basquiat, comes Miral, the story of four women whose lives intertwine in the starkly human search for justice, hope and reconciliation amid a world overshadowed by conflict, rage and war. The story begins in war-torn Jerusalem in 1948 when Hind Husseini (HIAM ABBASS, The Visitor, Amreeka) opens an orphanage for refugee children that quickly becomes home to 2000 orphans. One of the children is seventeen year old Miral (FRIEDA PINTO, Slumdog Millionaire) 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 (OMAR METWALLY, Munich, Rendition) 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. --(c) Weinstein Less

Silent House

Silent House (2010)
Director: Gustavo Hernández
Country: Uruguay
Runtime: 83 min



Laura (Florence Colucci) and his father Wilson (Gustavo Alonso) was interned in a remote country house to refurbish, as its owner Nestor (Abel Tripaldi), very soon will be on sale. They spend the night there, to begin work the next day. All goes smoothly until Laura hears a sound from outside and intensified in the upper floor of the house. Wilson goes to inspect while she is left alone down to await his father .... Based on a real event which took place in 1944 in an old farmhouse where they found the bodies of two men brutally tortured, without tongue or eyes. The disturbing photographs that were found were the key to solving the bloody crime.