A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Film poster
Directed by	Thierry Binisti
Written by	Thierry Binisti, Valérie Zenatti
Produced by	TS Productions France 3 Cinéma EMA Films (Canada) Lama Films (Israel)
Starring	Agathe Bonitzer Mahmoud Shalaby Hiam Abbass
Cinematography	Laurent Brunet
Edited by	Jean-Paul Husson
Music by	Benoît Charest
Distributed by	Roissy Films
Release dates	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
Countries	France Canada Israel
Languages	Hebrew Arabic French
Budget	€2,000,000 (estimated)

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (Template:Lang-fr, Template:Lang-fra-que) 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.

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

• Agathe Bonitzer as Tal Levine
• Mahmoud Shalaby 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 Daw as Ahmed
• Loai Nofi as Hakim
• François Loriquet as Thomas Morin
• Abdallah El Akal as Daoud

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Une bouteille à la mer at IMDb
• A Bottle in the Gaza Sea at Rotten Tomatoes