A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
| A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | |
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 Film poster | |
| Directed by | Thierry Binisti |
| Produced by |
TS Productions France 3 Cinéma EMA Films (Canada) Lama Films (Israel) |
| Written by | Thierry Binisti, Valérie Zenatti |
| Starring |
Agathe Bonitzer Mahmoud Shalabi Hiam Abbass |
| Music by | Benoît Charest |
| Cinematography | Laurent Brunet |
| Edited by | Jean-Paul Husson |
| Distributed by | Roissy Films |
Release dates |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country |
France Canada Israel |
| Language |
Hebrew Arabic French |
| Budget | €2,000,000 (estimated) |
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (French: Une bouteille à la mer, Quebec French: Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza) is a 2011 drama directed by Thierry Binisti. The film, an international co-production shot in French, Hebrew and Arabic, is based on the French young adult novel Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza by Valérie Zenatti, originally published in 2005 and adapted for the screen by Zenatti and Binisti.
Plot
Tal (Agathe Bonitzer) is the 17-year-old daughter of recent French immigrants to Israel who live in Jerusalem. Following a bomb attack on a local café, she throws a bottle into the sea near Gaza with a message asking for an explanation. Naïm (Mahmoud Shalabi), a sensitive but aimless 20-year-old Palestinian living in Gaza, discovers the bottle and tries to answer Tal's question by initiating an email correspondence. Their mutual suspicion soon develops into a tender friendship.
Cast
- Agathe Bonitzer as Tal Levine
- Mahmoud Shalabi as Naïm Al Fardjouki
- Hiam Abbass as Intessar
- Riff Cohen as Efrat
- Abraham Belaga as Eytan Levine
- Jean-Philippe Écoffey as Dan Levine
- Smadi Wolfman as Myriam
- Salim Dau as Ahmed
- Loai Nofi as Hakim
- François Loriquet as Thomas Morin
- Abdallah El Akal as Daoud
External links
- Official website (French)
- Une bouteille à la mer at the Internet Movie Database
- A Bottle in the Gaza Sea at Rotten Tomatoes