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A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

  • Une bouteille à la mer (Bottle in the Sea of Gaza)
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2011
Format : Feature
Running time : 99 (in minutes)
http://lamafilms.com/movie/bottle-in-the-sea-of-gaza

Tal is a 17 years-old. Naïm is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza. They were born in a land of scorched earth, where fathers bury their children. They must endure an explosive situation that is not of their choosing at an age where young people are falling in love and taking their place in adult life. A bottle thrown in the sea and a correspondence by e-mail nurture the slender hope that their relationship might give them the strength to confront this harsh reality, to grapple with it, and thereby ever so slightly change it. Only 60 miles separate them, but how many bombings, check-points, sleepless nights and bloodstained days stand between them?

A film by Thierry Binisti

2011, France-Israel-Canada, 1h40 min, 35 mm, Languages: French, Arabic & Hebrew

starring Agathe Bonitzer, Mahmoud Shalaby, Hiam Abbass



Directed by - Thierry Binisti
Written by - Valérie Zenatti & Thierry Binisti
Produced by - Miléna Poylo & Gilles Sacuto - TS productions
Co Produced by - Amir Harel & Ayelet Kait (Lama Films), Anne-Marie Gélinas
in participation with FRANCE 3 CINEMA, EMA FILMS, CANAL +, FRANCE TELEVISIONS, CINECINEMA, Israel Film Fund

CAST
Tal - Agathe Bonitzer
Naïm - Mahmoud Shalaby
Intessar - Hiam Abbass
Hakim - Loai Nofi
Eytan - Abraham Belaga
Dan - Jean-Philippe Ecoffey
Myriam - Smadi Wolfman
Thomas - François Loriquet
Uri - Max Yan Oleartchik
Efrat - Riff Cohen
Ahmed - Salim Daw


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IT
Tal ha 17 anni, è israeliana, e vive a Gerusalemme. Naïm ha 20 anni, è palestinese, e vive a Gaza. Nati in una terra arida e malata, dove sempre più spesso i padri sono costretti a seppellire i propri figli, Tal e Naïm si ritrovano a dover vivere, senza averla scelta, una situazione esplosiva e tragica, a un'età in cui dovrebbero pensare a innamorarsi e a disegnare il loro avvenire, il loro posto nel mondo. La tenue speranza che la loro relazione possa donar loro la forza di sopportare questa dura realtà, di affrontarla, e magari di cambiarla, è nutrita da una bottiglia gettata in mare e da una corrispondenza via e-mail. Solamente un centinaio di chilometri li dividono, ma quanti bombardamenti, quanti posti di blocco, quante notti insonni e quanti giorni insanguinati separano realmente le loro vite?

Francia-Israele-Canada / France-Israel-Canada, 2011, 99'

regia/director
Thierry Binisti

sceneggiatura/screenplay
Valérie Zenatti
Thierry Binisti

tratto dal libro/based on the book
"Una bottiglia nel mare di Gaza" ("Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza")
di/by
Valérie Zenatti

fotografia/director of photography
Laurent Brunet

montaggio/editor
Jean-Paul Husson

scenografia/production designer
Boaz Katznelson

costumi/costume designer
Hamada Atallah

suono/sound
Erwan Kerzanet
Olivier Dandré

musica/music
Benoît Charest

interpreti/leading players
Agathe Bonitzer (Tal)
Mahmud Shalaby (Naïm)
Hiam Abbass (Intessar)
Riff Cohen (Efrat)
Abraham Belaga (Eytan)
Jean-Philippe Écoffey (Dan)

prodotto da/produced by
Miléna Poylo
Gilles Sacuto

produzione/production
TS Productions
73, rue Notre-Dame des Champs, 75006 Paris - France
phone +33 153102400
fax +33 143269223
tsproductions@tsproductions.net

distribuzione internazionale/world sales
festival contact
Roissy Film
phone +33 153830303
fax +33 153830304
www.roissyfilms.com
contact@roissyfilms.com

Source: GFF 2012 (Sezione: Generator +16)
www.giffonifilmfestival.it/en/film-selected-for-gff-2012/official-competition/generator-16-official-competition/item/110-a-bottle-in-the-gaza-sea.html

Summary for official catalogues

Tal is a 17 years-old. Naïm is 20. She's Israeli. He's Palestinian. She lives in Jerusalem. He lives in Gaza.

A film by Thierry Binisti, 2011, France-Israel-Canada, 1h40 min, 35 mm, Languages: French, Arabic & Hebrew

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