Tel Aviv on Fire

Israel / Palestine, today. Salam, a 30-year-old Palestinian living in Jerusalem, works as a trainee on the Palestinian popular soap opera "Tel Aviv on Fire", produced in Ramallah. Every day, to reach the TV studios, Salam has to go through an Israeli checkpoint. There he meets the commander of the checkpoint, Assi, whose wife is a big fan of the soap opera. In order to please her, Assi puts pressure on Salam to change the end of the show. Salam quickly realizes that Assi's ideas could promote him to screenwriter. Salam's career is suddenly boiling, until Assi and the Palestinian producers and financiers disagree on how it should end. Stuck between an army colonel and his bosses, Salam needs to solve his dilemma with a master stroke finish.

The movie was financed by the EU and filmed partly in Luxemburg. For a change, Arabs and Jews are not shown trying to kill or falling in love with each other. I like the story and trailer, if this is European leftist political propaganda, well, it is not bad.