Tale of the Three Jewels

Palestine, Belgium| 1995 | 1h52 | Fiction At the beginning of the first Intifada, Youssef, a twelve-year-old boy living in the Gaza strip, meets Aida and falls in love with her. In order to marry her, Yussef must first find the three jewels missing from a family necklace, brought from South America by the girl's grand-father. Born in Nazareth in 1950 to a Palestinian working-class family, Michel Khleifi is considered the founder of contemporary Palestinian cinema and one of its most original voices. After immigrating to Belgium in 1970, he studied theatre and television at INSAS, Brussels and worked for RTBF (Belgian television) before making his first feature‐length documentary, Fertile Memories (1980), which combined a lyrical aesthetic with a critical political engagement, as did Maloul Celebrates its Destruction (1985). In 1987, he directed Wedding in Galilee, the first feature film entirely shot in Palestine by a Palestinian director.