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GIFFONI EXPERIENCE 2012 - 14.24 July

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A BOTTLE IN THE GAZA SEA

Category: Edition 2012

Synopsis
Tal is a 17 year-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?

 

Sinossi
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?

 

Original Title Une Bouteille å la Mer
Category Official Competition
Section Generator +16
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 99’
Production Year 2011
Nationality Canada, France, Israel
Directed by Thierry Binisti
Screenplay Valérie Zenatti, Thierry Binisti
Based on the book “Una bottiglia nel mare di Gaza”
by Valérie Zenatti
Director of photography Laurent Brunet
Editor Jean-Paul Husson
Production Design Boaz Katznelson
Costume Design Hamada Atallah
Sound Erwan Kerzanet, Olivier Dandré
Music Benoît Charest
Main cast Agathe Bonitzer (Tal)
Mahmud Shalaby (Naïm)
Hiam Abbass (Intessar)
Riff Cohen (Efrat)
Abraham Belaga (Eytan)
Jean-Philippe Écoffey (Dan)
Produced by Miléna Poylo, Gilles Sacuto

 

bottle-regThierry Binisti
He began his career with a number of short films for the Forum des Images, former Video Library of Paris. Then he worked as an assistant director for Régis Wargnier (INDOCHINE, 1992), Diane Kurys (APRÈS L’AMOUR, 1992), Jean-Jacques Zilbermann (NOT EVERYBODY’S LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE COMMUNIST PARENTS, 1993). In 2003 he made his first theatrical feature film, L’OUTREMANGEUR. Later he directed several TV movies such as QUELQUES MOTS D’AMOUR (2005).

 

 

Thierry Binisti
Inizia la carriera artistica realizzando cortometraggi per il Forum des Images, ex Vidéothèque de la Ville de Paris. In seguito lavora come aiuto regista per Régis Wargnier (INDOCINA, 1992), Diane Kurys (LE STRATEGIE DEL CUORE, 1992), Jean-Jacques Zilbermann (NON TUTTI HANNO LA FORTUNA DI AVER AVUTO I GENITORI COMUNISTI, 1993). Nel 2003 gira il suo primo lungometraggio per il cinema, L’OUTREMANGEUR. Ha poi diretto diversi film per la tv, tra cui LA LETTERA SMARRITA (2005).

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