Bombay Beach (film)

Bombay Beach is a 2011 documentary film directed and produced by Israeli filmmaker Alma Har'el. The film was nominated for an Independent Spirit "Truer than Fiction" Award, won "Best Feature Documentary" at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, and has been taught in several universities including Duke University and Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab and Film Center as a genre redefining work. Taking place in the Salton Sea, a rusting relic of a failed 1950s development boom, Bombay Beach is a dreamlike poem that sets three personal stories to a stylized melding of observational documentary and choreographed dance to music specially composed for the film by Zach Condon of the band Beirut, and songs by Bob Dylan.

Bombay Beach
Film poster
Directed byAlma Har'el
Produced byAlma Har'el
Boaz Yakin
Rafael Marmor
CinematographyAlma Har'el
Edited byAlma Har'el and Joe Lindquist
Music byZach Condon
Bob Dylan (songs)
Release dates
  • April 2011 (2011-04) (Tribeca)
  • October 4, 2011 (2011-10-04) (United States)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Filmmaker Terry Gilliam called the film, "A beautiful, quirky, and ultimately very moving film about the American Dream on the edge of a desert sea."

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