A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

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]

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Film poster
Directed byThierry Binisti
Produced byTS Productions
France 3 Cinéma
EMA Films (Canada)
Lama Films (Israel)
Written byThierry Binisti, Valérie Zenatti
StarringAgathe Bonitzer
Mahmoud Shalaby
Hiam Abbass
Music byBenoît Charest
CinematographyLaurent Brunet
Edited byJean-Paul Husson
Distributed byRoissy 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
CountryFrance
Canada
Israel
LanguageHebrew
Arabic
French
Budget€2,000,000 (estimated)

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." Archived 2016-05-18 at the Wayback Machine Film Movement. 1 June 2016.
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