Tel Aviv On Fire
by Sameh Zoabi
Year : 2018
Original language : Arabic and Hebrew (ST French)
Country : Israel / Palestine
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Cast
Kais Nashef, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton, Nadim Sawalha
Director(s)
Sameh Zoabi
Screenwriter(s)
Sameh Zoabi and Dan Kleinman
Synopsis
Salam, a charming 30-year-old Palestinian living in Jerusalem, works as an intern on the popular Palestinian soap opera "Tel Aviv on Fire", produced in Ramallah.
Every day, to reach the TV studios, Salam has to pass through a rather difficult Israeli checkpoint.
There he meets the checkpoint commander, Assi, whose wife is a big fan of the soap opera.
To please her, Assi puts pressure on Salam to change the ending of the show.
Salam soon realizes that Assi's ideas could earn him a promotion to scriptwriter.
Salam's creative career is suddenly in turmoil, until Assi and the soap's producers and financiers disagree on how it should end.
Caught between an army colonel and Arab backers, Salam can only solve his problems with a final masterstroke.