Event

Bottle in the Gaza Sea

Carmel Jewish Film Festival
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

TWO FOR ONE SPECIAL - AT THE DOOR ONLY
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Tickets can be purchased at the door starting at 6:30 PM.
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Bottle in the Gaza Sea

Film: 7:30 p.m.
Discussion: Rabbi Leah Novick and Tehila Eisenstat

Venue: Congregation Beth Israel, Carmel, CA

Genre: Drama - PG
Running Time: 100 minutes
Language: Hebrew/Arabic/French subtitled in English
Country of Origin: France/Israel/Canada

Winner Best FilmFestival of Young Filmmakers at Saint Jean de Luz (France)

Narrative Feature Award and Audience Choice Award-Heartland Film Festival

An engrossing drama based on the award-winning novel by Valrie Zenatti. Seventeen-year-old Tal has emigrated from France to Jerusalem with her family. She writes a letter expressing her refusal to accept that only hatred can reign between Israelis and Palestinians. She slips the letter into a bottle, and her brother throws it into the sea near Gaza. A few weeks later Tal receives an e-mail response from a mysterious "Gazaman," a young Palestinian named Nam. Thus begins a turbulent but tender long-distance friendship between two young people that are separated by a history they are trying both to understand and change.

A discussion led by Rabbi Leah Novick and Tehila Eisenstat will follow the film.