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A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (French: Une bouteille à la mer, Quebec French: Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza) 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.

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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

Abdallah El Akal as Daoud



Personal Connection Amid Political Dissonance in the Middle East

A Bottle In The Gaza Sea (Une Bouteille à la mer)

“Tell me about France,” says Naim (Mahmoud Shalaby), a young Palestinian man dodging Israeli missiles in Gaza. “It will make me dream.”

He’s addressing a 17-year-old girl named Tal (Agathe Bonitzer), a French-born immigrant to Jerusalem whom he has never met. Communicating solely by e-mail after Naim, 20, finds a note from Tal washed up in a bottle on the beach, the two begin a search for common ground despite their uncommon circumstances.



Set in 2007 and unfolding over a single year, “A Bottle in the Gaza Sea” (based on a young-adult novel by Valérie Zenatti) is a simplistic but heartfelt engagement with war as experienced by those still growing into their opinions and allegiances.



There’s not much to dream about in Naim’s life: goods languish for hours at blockades, electricity comes and goes, and his widowed mother (an indispensable Hiam Abbas) works long hours at an overflowing hospital. And though Tal may be more materially comfortable, her days are equally dogged by uncertainty and random violence.



Fueled by neither anger nor religious extremism — the director, Thierry Binisti, remains rigidly nonpartisan — “Bottle” is a gentle pairing of youthful idealism and tenacious hope. As Tal tells her father when he questions her enjoyment of music she had previously disdained, “Only idiots never change.” If only it were that simple.