• Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Sameh Zoabi
  • : Patricia Ibañez
  • Israel, Luxembourg, France, Belgium 2018
  • 95 minutes
  • Hebrew, Arabic
  • Subtitles in English

Salam, an aimless 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.

Tel-Aviv on Fire comes to the Festival from its world premiere in Venice.


  • Director Sameh Zoabi
  • Production Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait, Bernard Michaux, Milena Poylo, Gilles Sacutto, Patrick Quinet
  • Script Sameh Zoabi, Dan Kleinmann
  • Cinematography Laurent Brunet
  • Editing Catherine Schwartz
  • Music Andre Dziezuk
  • Sound Design Pia Dumont
  • Festivals Venice
  • Actors Kais Nashif, Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Salim Daw
  • Source Lama Films, Tel Aviv