A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza)
Directed by: Thierry BinistiCast list: Agathe Bonitzer (Tal), Mahmoud Shalaby (Naïm), Hiam Abbass
Country: France, Israel, Canada
Year: 2011
Genres: Drama /
Runtime: 99 min.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: Original version in French, Arabic, English and Hebrew subtitled in Catalan
This film is based on a novel by Valerie Zenatti. Tal is 17 years old. Naim 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 email 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 many bombings, check-points, sleepless nights and bloodstained days stand between.
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Subjects: Catalan language and literature / Religion / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Literature / French / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: education in human values / natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / adolescence, youth / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / human geography / human relations, psychology, sociology / human rights / death and grief / film adaptation of literary or graphic work / politics, political systems /
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