A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

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 Shalaby
Hiam Abbass
Music by Benoît Charest
Cinematography Laurent Brunet
Edited by Jean-Paul Husson
Distributed by Roissy Films
Release date
  • October 8, 2011 (2011-10-08) (Pusan International Film Festival)
  • February 8, 2012 (2012-02-08) (France)
  • March 23, 2012 (2012-03-23) (Canada)
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. Zenatti taught Agathe Bonitzer Hebrew in preparation for starring in the film.[1]

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 Shalaby), 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

References

  1. ↑ "A Bottle In The Gaza Sea." Film Movement. 1 June 2016.
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