Tel Aviv on Fire

Family connections won hapless Palestinian Salam (Kais Nashif) production scutwork on a hugely popular potboiler soap opera set during the Six Day War. Fate would bring him afoul of Israeli checkpoint officer Assi (Yaniv Biton), whose wife turned out to love the show...and he now finds himself stuck trying to incorporate the soldier’s story notes into the scripts! Incisive farce also stars Lubna Azabal, Nadim Sawalha, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Salim Dau. 100 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Arabic and Hebrew; Subtitles: English. In Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles.