TEL AVIV ON FIRE offers an unusual combination of humour and politics. It is a comedy on the political issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by Palestinian film maker Sameh Zoabi. Humour gives a good space to tackle serious issues and speak about them in fresh and more engaging ways.

The approach for the audience design strategy was to focus on the comedy aspect of the film: that it is an entertaining, fun to watch and at the same time well done signature film that attracts a wide range of audiences to actually make their way to the cinema for enjoying an intelligent date and family movie. A film that renders the political conflicts in Israel-Palestine in a deeply human way and shows that love and humour have no borders.

During the Audience Design consultancy, we identified different target audiences for the film and offered a global strategy with a variety of alternative methods and ideas to reach these groups. The strategy was designed as a supplement to the local marketing and promotion, and as a global action to give the film a long term focus. Distributors are encouraged to select the elements from this “strategy tool kit” that suit their market and implement or adapt them for upcoming festival and theatrical releases in their territory.

TEL AVIV ON FIRE

France/Israel/Luxemburg/Belgium, 2018
Written & directed by Sameh Zoabi
Fiction, 97 min, DCP, color

Festivals & Awards (selection): Venice International Film Festival 2018 (Best Film / Interfilm Award & Best Actor Kais Nashef / Venice Horizons Award), Best Screenplay (Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2018), Toronto International Film Festival 2018, Cork International Film Festival 2018, Haifa International Film Festival 2018 (Best Film / Israeli Film Competition), Tokyo International Film Festival 2018, Zürich Film Festival 2018, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2019

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