Tel Aviv on Fire

country

Luxembourg, Belgium, Israel, France

Director

Sameh Zoabi

Year

2018

Run time

100 min

Awards/Main Selection

Venice Film Festival Interfilm Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue (International Interchurch Film Organisation)

Genre

Comedy

Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.