Tel Aviv on Fire

2018 [HEBREW]

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 86% · 63 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86%
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 2719 2.7K

Plot summary

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.

Director

Sameh Zoabi Photo
Sameh Zoabi

Top cast

Laëtitia Eïdo Photo
Laëtitia Eïdo as Maisa
Salim Dau Photo
Salim Dau as Atef
Levana Finkelstein Photo
Levana Finkelstein as Assi's Mother-in-Law
Maisa Abd Elhadi Photo
Maisa Abd Elhadi as Mariam
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
897.05 MB
1280*694
Hebrew 2.0
NR
Subtitles il  
24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds ...
1.8 GB
1920*1040
Hebrew 5.1
NR
Subtitles il  
24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by larrys3 8 / 10

Subtle & Satirical Humor is Effective Here

The laid back subtle and satirical humor is mostly effective here. Somehow, Sameh Zoab, director and co-writer with Don Kleinman, pulls it off despite all the political turmoil that has encased the region for so long now.The acting is first rate as well, and I thought the surprise and clever ending enhanced the movie. Overall, quite the engaging surprise with its positive message.
Reviewed by albertval-69560 7 / 10

COMEDY AT A PERILOUS TIME

It's a pleasant surprise how a Palestinian film about a very serious issue could be funny at all. But this one pulls it off rather nicely.The approach to make a film within a film works beautifully in this one. And the result is pure comedy.The viewer heartily laughs at the seeming incongruity of Salam's situation. He has to cross the border daily to go to the West Bank where he works as a film production assistant and finding himself in a bind one morning after making an innocuous remark to an Israeli border guard. This silly encounter and its immediate outcome changes his life forever.Kais Nashif is naturally funny as Salam. Yaniv Biton as Assi is credible as the border commander. His interaction with Salam as they finish the script of the soap opera is hilarious. And the ending is a marriage of convenience of sorts. It's one that satisfies extremists on either side of the aisle.The message of the film is simple: promote the peace when each side listens to the other. Assi thinks so.
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