Tale of the Three Jewels, Hikayatul jawahiri thalath (1995) dir. Michel Khleifi

A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990. Yusef s family scrapes by in a seaside camp while his father s in prison and his heavilyarmed brother s on the run, parrying with Israeli troops. Salah, Yusef s schoolmate from a welloff Arab family strives faithfully to assist them, while Yusef helps an elderly, blind neighbor escape from his lonely abandonment into the North American dreamworld he s waited so long for.