A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
| A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | |
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| 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 Shalabi Hiam Abbass |
| Cinematography | Laurent Brunet |
| Edited by | Jean-Paul Husson |
| Music by | Benoît Charest |
| Distributed by | Roissy Films |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Countries | France, Israel, Canada |
| Languages | Hebrew, Arabic, French |
| Budget | €2,000,000 (estimated) |
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (Template:Lang-fr) is a 2012 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
