TEL AVIV ON FIRE

Director - Sameh Zoabi

Script - Sameh Zoabi, Dan Kleinman

Camera - Laurent Brunet

Music - André Dziezuk

Cast - Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton, Nadim Sawalha

Producers - Bernard Michaux, Gilles Sacuto, Miléna Poylo, Amir Harel, Patrick Quinet

Production - Samsa Film, TS Productions, Lama Films, Artémis Productions

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.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Venice '18 – Interfilm Award for Best Film, Horizons Award for Best Actor (Kais Nashif)

Program

09.03.2019
EURO CINEMA - 20.00 часа
22.03.2019
DOM NA KINOTO - 20.30 часа
19.03.2019
CULTURE CENTER “G8” - 19.30 часа

Sameh Zoabi

Sameh Zoabi was born and raised in Iksal, a Palestinian village near the city of Nazareth. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with a dual degree in Film Studies and English Literature. Zoabi then received a Fulbright Fellowship to study Filmmaking at Columbia University, earning an M.F.A. in 2005. Zoabi's work has been shown in many international film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Sundance, Karlovy Vary, and New York Film Festival. A selection of Zoabi's notable work includes a short film titled Be Quiet (2005) for which received a prize at the Cannes Film Festival-Cinefondation Selection. His feature film debut, Man Without a Cell Phone (2010), won several audience awards as well as the Golden Antigone at the 2011 Montpellier Film Festival. His second feature film, Under the Same Sun (2013) was about peace between Israel and Palestinians.
Along with his work as a filmmaker, Zoabi developed a keen interest in academia. Zoabi is working as an adjunct professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Hunter College and Columbia University's MFA program. Zoabi teaches core classes in directing, production and screenwriting.

FILMOGRAPHY

2005 Be Quiet – short
2010 Man Without a Cell Phone (Ish lelo selolari)
2012 Family Albums (Mawsem hisad) – doc.
2013 Under the Same Sun
2018 Tel Aviv on Fire

TEL AVIV ON FIRE

Luxemburg-France-Israel-Belgium, 2018, 95′, color, movie

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Program

Sameh Zoabi