A BOTTLE IN THE GAZA SEA
synopsis
Tal is a young Frenchwoman who has settled in Jerusalem with her family. Seventeen years old, she has reached the age of the "first time": the first love, first cigarette, first piercing. And the first bombing. After the explosion of a kamikaze in a café in her neighborhood, she writes a letter to an imaginary Palestinian, in which she expresses her questions and her refusal to accept that only hatred can reign between Israelis and Palestinians. She slips the letter into a bottle that she gives to her brother to throw into the sea, near Gaza, where he is carrying out his military service. A few weeks later, Tal receives a response from a mysterious "Gazaman."
international title: | A Bottle in the Gaza Sea |
original title: | Une bouteille à la mer |
country: | France |
sales agent: | Roissy Films |
year: | 2012 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Thierry Binisti |
film run: | 99' |
release date: | FR 08/02/2012, FR 22/02/2012, ES 14/09/2012 |
cast: | Agathe Bonitzer, Mahmud Shalaby, Hiam Abbass |
cinematography by: | Laurent Brunet |
film editing: | Jean-Paul Husson |
art director: | Boatz Katznelson |
costumes designer: | Hamada Attalah |
music: | Benoît Charest |
producer: | Mylena Poylo, Gilles Sacuto |
production: | TS Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Lama films/Israel |
distributor: | Diaphana Distribution, Cinéart, Golem Distribución |