Type:
Feature Film
Director:
Michel Khleifi
Year:
1995
Time:
107 minutes
Produced by:
Michel Khleifi & Omar Al-Qattan
Written by:
Michel Khleifi
Edited by:
Ludo Troch
Language:
In Arabic with English subtitles
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Official Selection!
Director’s Fortnight, Cannes
Winner!
Golden Butterfly, Isfahan Children's Film Festival
Winner!
Grand Prix, Nantes Film Festival
Winner!
Prix des Elèves Francophones, Film Festival Ragazzi
"A glimmering parable about the meaning of life, about beauty and freedom and about the 'three borders' that govern our destiny: time, space and flesh. . . a jewel."
- The Independent on Sunday
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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 he meets Aida, a ravishing gypsy girl with whom he falls in love. When Yussef 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 him off on an amazing adventure.
An Official Selection of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, the 1997 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
Rental Information
This film is available from AFD on 35mm and video for public screenings and television broadcast. For information regarding rental rates and formats, please contact institutions@arabfilm.com for institutional/non-theatrical screenings, or festivals@arabfilm.com for theatrical, festival, television, or other bookings.
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