Official Selection, Director's Fortnight at the Cannes International Film Festival
Winner, Golden Butterfly at the Isfahan Children Film Festival
Winner, Grand Prix des Lycéens at the Nantes Film Festival
Winner, Prix des Elèves Francophones at the Film Festival Ragazzi, Bellinzona
Winner, Silver Olive-tree and Critics Prize at the Festival of Mediterranean Culture, Bastia
Tale of the Three Jewels is a moving parable and the first feature film ever to be filmed in the Gaza Strip. Made in the days following the Hebron Massacre - and before the arrival of the Palestinian Authority - it tells the story of Yussef, a twelve-year-old boy who lives in an imaginary world of his own and often escapes from the surrounding violence to the beautiful Gaza countryside.
One day Yussef meets Aida, a ravishing gypsy girl with whom he falls in love. When he declares his intention of marrying her when they grow up, she tells him that he must first find three jewels missing from her grandmother's necklace, which was brought from South America by her grandfather. This sets Yussef off on a beautiful and mystical adventure.
Source: Typecast Films
DVD Features:
Keep Case
Full Frame 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital - Arabic, Hebrew
Subtitles - English - Optional
Pre-teen boy Yussef avoids the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by going birdwatching in this touching feature. Yussef falls in love with a gypsy girl on his travels, but must find three missing jewels if he is to truly win her heart.