Released:
1995-01-02

Overview:
A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Romani 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 heavily-armed brother's on the run, parrying with Israeli troops. Salah, Yusef's schoolmate from a well-off 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.

Director:
Michel Khleifi

Runtime:
1h 52min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Mohammad Nahhal
  as
  Yusef
• 
  Hana' Nc'mch
  as
  Aida #1
• 
  Makram J. Khoury
  as
  Abu Iman
• 
  Bushra Qaraman
  as
  Yusef's mother
• 
  Ghassan Abu Libda
  as
  Salah