Art & Design

"Are we not allowed to love?" Yusef, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy living in a Gaza refugee camp, asks his mother. She laughs lightly, then responds, "In our time, love only existed in movies." This exchange appears in Tale of Three Jewels (1995), the first film ever shot entirely in Gaza. It follows the story of Yusef, a young boy who falls in love with Aida, a young gypsy girl, and embarks on a mission to find her grandmother’s lost jewels…