Luxembourg has selected Tel Aviv on Fire, a drama from writer-director Sameh Zoabi (Family Albums) as its contender for the 2020 Oscars in the international feature film category.
The comedic drama, which premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival, is set in the Middle East but was largely shot in Luxembourg, using a local crew.
The plot follows a 30-something Palestinian slacker (Kais Nashif) who lucks into a writing gig on a propagandistic Palestinian soap called Tel Aviv on Fire. A chance meeting with the Israeli commander Assi (Yaniv Biton) during a checkpoint stop leads to an unlikely partnership, with the two ...
The comedic drama, which premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival, is set in the Middle East but was largely shot in Luxembourg, using a local crew.
The plot follows a 30-something Palestinian slacker (Kais Nashif) who lucks into a writing gig on a propagandistic Palestinian soap called Tel Aviv on Fire. A chance meeting with the Israeli commander Assi (Yaniv Biton) during a checkpoint stop leads to an unlikely partnership, with the two ...
- 9/24/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Luxembourg has selected Tel Aviv on Fire, a drama from writer-director Sameh Zoabi (Family Albums) as its contender for the 2020 Oscars in the international feature film category.
The comedic drama, which premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival, is set in the Middle East but was largely shot in Luxembourg, using a local crew.
The plot follows a 30-something Palestinian slacker (Kais Nashif) who lucks into a writing gig on a propagandistic Palestinian soap called Tel Aviv on Fire. A chance meeting with the Israeli commander Assi (Yaniv Biton) during a checkpoint stop leads to an unlikely partnership, with the two ...
The comedic drama, which premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival, is set in the Middle East but was largely shot in Luxembourg, using a local crew.
The plot follows a 30-something Palestinian slacker (Kais Nashif) who lucks into a writing gig on a propagandistic Palestinian soap called Tel Aviv on Fire. A chance meeting with the Israeli commander Assi (Yaniv Biton) during a checkpoint stop leads to an unlikely partnership, with the two ...
- 9/24/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Don’t call it a wave just yet, but Israel has emerged as a mini-hotbed for wry comedies of late. “Tel Aviv on Fire” picks up where “One Week and a Day” left off, with writer-director Sameh Zoabi delivering on a setup you’re unlikely to have seen before: a lush soap opera about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that gives the film its title.
Much of the drama is set on the show’s, well, set, shifting between the “fake” and “real” stories with ease — and, the longer things go on, blurring the line between the two as art imitates life (and vice versa).
Navigating that porous border is Salam (Kais Nashif), a Palestinian who recently landed his “Tel Aviv” gig thanks to a producer on the show who just happens to be his uncle. Initially hired to punch up the dialogue, he falls upwards into a staff-writing position. His inexperience...
Much of the drama is set on the show’s, well, set, shifting between the “fake” and “real” stories with ease — and, the longer things go on, blurring the line between the two as art imitates life (and vice versa).
Navigating that porous border is Salam (Kais Nashif), a Palestinian who recently landed his “Tel Aviv” gig thanks to a producer on the show who just happens to be his uncle. Initially hired to punch up the dialogue, he falls upwards into a staff-writing position. His inexperience...
- 8/1/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- The Wrap
A winsome and delicate farce about a (fictional) Palestinian soap opera that people are able to enjoy on both sides of the West Bank, Sameh Zoabi’s “Tel Aviv on Fire” might be the film we need right now if it didn’t have so much fun taking the piss out of the notion that there could ever be a “film that we need right now;” that a movie, or a daytime television show, could ever help broker a peace that the real world isn’t ready to support.
But this clever little comedy isn’t quite as cynical as that makes it sound. Dancing around political dynamite for 95 dryly amusing minutes, Zoabi’s self-reflexive third feature asks if it’s even possible to tell a credible story about an ongoing conflict without picking sides, or if the only viable options are propaganda and naïveté. And in order to do that,...
But this clever little comedy isn’t quite as cynical as that makes it sound. Dancing around political dynamite for 95 dryly amusing minutes, Zoabi’s self-reflexive third feature asks if it’s even possible to tell a credible story about an ongoing conflict without picking sides, or if the only viable options are propaganda and naïveté. And in order to do that,...
- 7/31/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Tel Aviv On Fire Samsa Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Sameh Zoabi Screenwriter: Sameh Zoabi, Dan Kleinman Cast: Kais Nashef, Lubna Azabal, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Yaniv Biton Screened at: Cohen Media Group, NYC, 7/11/19 Opens: August 2, 2019 in New York and Los Angeles Think of […]
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- 7/28/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"Our spy has a problem. Duty is more important than love." Cohen Media Group has debuted an official Us trailer for an indie from Palestine / Israeli titled Tel Aviv on Fire, the latest film from filmmaker Sameh Zoabi (Under the Same Sun). This premiered at the Venice Film Festival last fall, before going on a global tour to other fests including Tiff & Rotterdam. The comedy is about a young Palestinian man who becomes a writer on a popular soap opera in Tel Aviv. His creative career catches fire, until the check point guard and the show's financial backers disagree on how the soap opera should end. Starring Kais Nashif as Salam, along with Lubna Azabal, Yaniv Biton, Nadim Sawalha, Maïsa Abd Elhadi, Salim Daw, Yousef Sweid, Amer Hlehel, Ashraf Farah, and Laëtitia Eïdo. It seems quite clever and bold - worth a watch. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for...
- 7/7/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Given how illuminating comedies about impossible situations can be, it’s a great pity so few deal with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. When they do crop up, like “Tel Aviv on Fire,” reactions tend to be relief – “Finally we can laugh about this!” – or uncritical support coming from a well-meaning yet ultimately condescending place – “Isn’t it great these people can make a comedy!” Both responses will attach themselves to Sameh Zoabi’s genial satire about a Palestinian soap opera writer and the Israeli security officer who tries to influence the direction of a TV show’s plot. Fitfully amusing yet unable to withstand close inspection, the movie will be a popular item in festivals and showcases, though Israeli money means Arab play is impossible.
Zoabi’s imagining of the soap, itself called “Tel Aviv on Fire,” is the film’s masterstroke, reproducing all the outrageous plot twists and visual excesses of the genre.
Zoabi’s imagining of the soap, itself called “Tel Aviv on Fire,” is the film’s masterstroke, reproducing all the outrageous plot twists and visual excesses of the genre.
- 9/9/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
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