Description:

A moving, adventurous parable — and the first feature film ever to be filmed in the Gaza Strip — Tale of Three Jewels tells the story of Yussef, a twelve-year-old boy who lives in an imaginary world of his own amidst the violence of Israeli occupation. Filmed following the Hebron Massacre — and before the arrival of the Palestinian Authority — this internationally renowned allegory reflects the filmmaker’s self-described need to “reveal a certain magical reality to this strip of land where so much humiliation, terror, violence, hate and passion, strength and fragility of reality and imagination, has been concentrated.”