A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Film poster
Directed byThierry Binisti
Written byThierry Binisti, Valérie Zenatti
Produced byTS Productions
France 3 Cinéma
EMA Films (Canada)
Lama Films (Israel)
StarringAgathe Bonitzer
Mahmoud Shalaby
Hiam Abbass
CinematographyLaurent Brunet
Edited byJean-Paul Husson
Music byBenoît Charest
Distributed byRoissy Films
Release dates
  • October 8, 2011 (2011-10-08) (Pusan International Film Festival)
  • February 8, 2012 (2012-02-08) (France)
  • March 23, 2012 (2012-03-23) (Canada)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesFrance
Canada
Israel
LanguagesHebrew
Arabic
French
Budget€2,000,000 (estimated)

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. Zenatti taught Agathe Bonitzer Hebrew in preparation for starring in the film.[1]

  1. ^ "A Bottle In The Gaza Sea." Archived 2016-05-18 at the Wayback Machine Film Movement. 1 June 2016.