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Tel Aviv on Fire

תל אביב על האש

2018

A hapless young Palestinian gofer on a popular soap opera becomes an unlikely writer on the show after a chance encounter with an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint, who starts dictating the plot — pulling him between two demanding sides. A wry political comedy.

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