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TEL AVIV ON FIRE

By Sameh ZOABI

SAMSA FILM - as PROD

Comedy - Completed 2018

Festivals
& Awards

Venice - Biennale 2018

Orizzonti Award for Best Actor Award

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- LUXEMBOURG, FRANCE, ISRAEL, BELGIUM
- Languages
- HEBREW, ARABIC
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Sameh ZOABI
- Writer(s)
- Sameh ZOABI, Dan KLEINMAN
- Cast
- Kais NASHEF, Yaniv BITON, Lubna AZABAL, Laëtitia EÏDO
- Producer(s)
- Bernard MICHAUX (SAMSA FILM), Gilles SACUTO (TS PRODUCTIONS), Miléna POYLO (TS PRODUCTIONS), Amir HAREL (LAMA FILMS), Patrick QUINET (ARTEMIS PRODUCTIONS)
- Synopsis
- Taking place nowadays in Ramallah where everybody watches the successful soap opera « Tel Aviv on Fire» in which a Palestinian female spy has a love affair with an Israeli General in 1967, the film tells the story of Salam, a charming 30-year-old Palestinian living in East Jerusalem, working as an intern on the show in Ramallah.
  Every day, he has to pass by the check-point to reach the studios.
  He encounters the check-point Commander Assi, whose wife is a huge fan of the soap.
  In order to please her, Assi puts pressure on Salam to influence the story of the show.
  Salam soon understands Assi’s creative vision can get him a promotion as a screenwriter, at least until Assi and the show’s financial backers start disagreeing on how it should all end, leaving Salam uncomfortably caught in the middle…