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Tel Aviv On Fire
Directed by SAMEH ZOABI

Status : Completed

Country : Luxembourg, France, Israel, Belgium

Originale Title : Tel Aviv on Fire

Year : 2018

Language : Arabic, Hebrew

Domestic Release : Idea Film Distribution

Genre : Comedy

Runtime : 97 min

Synopsis

NO MATTER WHICH SIDE YOU'RE ON, YOU WILL LOVE THIS TV SHOW!

Israel/ Palestine, today.

Salam, a charming 30-year-old Palestinian living in Jerusalem, works as an intern on a popular Palestinian soap opera, “Tel Aviv on Fire,” which is produced in Ramallah. Every day Salam must pass through an arduous Israeli checkpoint to reach the television studios. He meets the commander of the check-point, Assi, whose wife is a huge fan of the show. In order to impress her, Assi gets involved in the writing of the show.


Salam soon realizes that Assi’s ideas could get him a promotion as a screenwriter. Salam’s creative career catches fire, until Assi and the soap’s financial backers disagree on how the soap opera should end. Squeezed between an Army Officer and the Arab backers, Salam can only solve his problems with a final master stroke.

DIRECTOR

SAMEH ZOABI

CAST & CREW

SCREENPLAY
Dan Kleinman
Sameh Zoabi (The Idol)

CAST
Kais Nashef (Paradise Now – Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film)
Lubna Azabal (Incendies, Paradise Now, Exils)
Maisa Abd Elhadi (Personal Affairs, Man Without a Cellphone)

PRODUCERS
TS Productions (A Woman’s Life, Seraphine, Incendies, Violette)
SAMSA Films (Möbius, Don’t Look Back)
Lama Films (Paradise Now, Jellifish)
Artémis Productions (I am not your Negro, The Danish Girl)