Tel Aviv on Fire
- TS Productions (FR)
- Lama Films (IL)
- Artémis Productions (BE)
- Hebrew
- Arabic
- Aide Financière Sélective (AFS)
Indie Sales
Clément Chautant
cchautant@indiesales.eu
Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton, Nadim Sawalha, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Laetitia Eïdo, Salim Daw, Wafaa Abo Zarifa, Amer Oklah, Alexandre Hornbeck
Laurent Brunet (DOP), Catherine Schwartz (Editors), Christina Schaffer (Production Designer), André Dziezuk (Music), Magdalena Labuz (Costumes Designer), Solveig Harper (production manager), Tiago Hof (Location Manager)
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…