Tale of the Three Jewels (movie)
حكايات الجواهر ثلاث- User score: 6.8
- Production country: Belgium, France, Palestinian Territory, Spain, United Kingdom
- Producer: Michel Khleifi
- Production companies: BBC, Foundation Montecinema Verità, La Sept-Arte, One World of Broadcasters, Sindibad Films, Sourat Films, Television Trust for the Environment, TVE
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 1/2/1995
- Run time: 112 min.
Movie description
A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990. Yusef's family scrapes by in a seaside camp while his father's in prison and his heavily-armed brother's on the run, parrying with Israeli troops. Salah, Yusef's schoolmate from a well-off Arab family strives faithfully to assist them, while Yusef helps an elderly, blind neighbor escape from his lonely abandonment into the North American dreamworld he's waited so long for.
