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2007 | Color | 78 min

Tel-Aviv, today. At her wedding reception, Keren breaks a leg. And bang goes the Caribbean honeymoon. A strange little girl comes out of the sea and follows Batya like a shadow and changes her life forever. Joy is a maid from the Philippines. She works for a tough old lady who inadvertently reconciles her with her daughter. This is a composite film, made out of the scraps of humanity that, like a message in a bottle, borders on the absurd. A portrait of a messy world in which everyone scrapes by as best they can, looking for love, for something to remember or to forget... Such is life in Tel-Aviv


Country: Francia, Israel;
Direction: Geffen; Shira, Keret; Etgar
Script: Geffen; Shira
Photography: Héberl; Antoine
Sound: Dô Huu; Oliver, Toren; Gil
Music: Bowen; Christopher
Cast:Adler; Sara, Leidman; Nikol, Sandler; Gera, Knoller; Noa, De Latorre; Ma-nenita, Charifai; Zharira
Participation year at FICM: 2007

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