A Bottle In The Gaza Sea
Year | 2012 |
Starring | Agathe Bonitzer, Hiam Abbass, Mahmud Shalaby |
Director(s) | Thierry Binisti |
Runtime | 100 min |
Tal is a 17-year-old girl from France who has settled in Jerusalem with her family. She writes a letter expressing her refusal to accept that only hatred can reign between Israelis and Palestinians. She slips the letter into a bottle, and her brother throws it into the sea near Gaza, where he is carrying out his military service. A few weeks later, Tal receives an e-mail response from a mysterious “Gazaman,” a young Palestinian named Naïm. Thus begins a turbulent but tender long-distance friendship between two young people that are separated by a history they are trying both to understand and change.
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea does a marvelous job of representing the people on opposite sides of conflict, people who can connect with one another in spite of their circumstances, and, more importantly, provide hope in the middle of darkness.
This film contains some mild language, some drug/alcohol content, some violence and some mild sexual content.