Synopsis
Tal is a young Frenchwoman who has settled in Jerusalem with her family. Seventeen years old, she has reached the age of the "first time": the first love, first cigarette, first piercing. And the first bombing.
After the explosion of a kamikaze in a café in her neighborhood, she writes a letter to an imaginary Palestinian, in which she expresses her questions and her refusal to accept that only hatred can reign between Israelis and Palestinians.
She slips the letter into a bottle that she gives to her brother to throw into the sea, near Gaza, where he is carrying out his military service. A few weeks later, Tal receives a response from a mysterious "Gazaman."
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (7)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : TS Productions
- Co-production : France 3 Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Ema Films, Lama Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont, EuropaCorp
- French distribution : Diaphana
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producers : Miléna Poylo, Gilles Sacuto
- Screenwriters : Valérie Zenatti, Thierry Binisti
- Director of Photography : Laurent Brunet
- Music Composer : Benoît Charest
- Assistant director : Gilly Ran
- Editor : Jean-Paul Husson
- Sound recordists : Erwan Kerzanet, Olivier Dandré
- Costume designer : Hamada Atallah
- Author of original work : Valérie Zenatti
- Production Manager : Christophe Desenclos
- Press Attaché (film) : Laurence Granec
- Sound Editor : Sylvain Bellemare
- Production Designer : Boaz Katznelson
- Casting : Brigitte Moidon, Yael Aviv, Youna De Peretti
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Arabic, Hebrew, French
- Coproducer countries : France, Canada, Israel
- Original French-language productions : Yes