Tale of the Three Jewels

حكاية الجواهر الثلاثة

1995·112'

Michel Khleifi

Drama

★ 7.4

Letterboxd TMDB #274955

A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Romani 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.

Cast

Mohammad Nahhal Yusef

Hana' Nc'mch Aida #1

Makram J. Khoury Abu Iman

Bushra Qaraman Yusef's mother

Ghassan Abu Libda Salah

Mohammad Bakri Aida's father

Raida Adon Suad

Mohammed Sheikh Samir

Hana' Ne'meh Aida

Amir Halabi Salah's father

Umm Fayez Aida's grandmother

Ahmad Abu Sal'oum Yusef's father