Tale of the Three Jewels

A feature film by Michel Khleifi and one of the first feature films shot in the Gaza Strip. Yussef, a boy growing up in a refugee camp during the first intifada, falls in love with Aida, a Roma girl.

She promises to marry him if he finds the three jewels missing from her grandmother’s necklace, said to be in faraway South America. Part fairy tale and part portrait of life under occupation, the film follows a child’s dream of escape from a besieged world.