‘The Star Talers’ Screening at the 2013 Beirut International Film Festival

Join the 13th edition of the Beirut International Film Festival as it hosts the screening of “The Star Talers,” directed by Mariavond Heland.

Synopsis:
An unnamed, orphaned girl is poor and homeless; she has only her clothing and a loaf of bread that a kindhearted soul has given her. She is a goodhearted person, however, and so she goes out into the countryside to see what might happen. She gives a hungry man her bread, and to three cold children she gives her cap, her jacket, and her dress. In a forest, she sees a naked child begging for an undergarment, and since it is dark and she cannot be seen, she gives her own shift skirt away. As she stands with nothing left at all, suddenly stars fall to earth before her, becoming talers, and she finds herself wearing a different shift skirt of the finest linen.