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CONCERNED CITIZEN | אזרח מודאג

Community Partner Screening - The Creative Community for Peace

Dir. Idan Haguel82 min2022

Dir: Idan Haguel
82 min
2022

Ben plants a tree on the street in front of his house in Neve Sha’anan, a migrant neighborhood in the south of Tel Aviv. The district is on the up, and Ben has bought and upgraded a flat here together with his partner Raz. This couple now enjoys a settled existence ready to tackle their desire to have children. One day, when a neighbourly conflict escalates over the tree he has planted, Ben’s life goes into a turmoil.

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  • Born in Holon, Israel in 1980. Completed his film studies at Sapir College in his home country. His debut feature film Inertia premiered in the Berlinale Forum. In 2017, he participated in Berlinale Talents. Alongside his work as a director, he is also a journalist and a scriptwriter for Israeli television.

Credits

CATEGORY
Drama
DIRECTOR
Idan Haguel
SCREENPLAY
Idan Haguel
PRODUCER
Idan Haguel, Gil Sima, Binyamin Gurevich, Itay Akirav
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Guy Sahaf
EDITOR
Shauly Melamed
MUSIC
Zoe Polanski
SOUND
Erez Eyni Shavit
CAST
Shlomi Bertonov, Ariel Wolf
RUNNING TIME
82 min
COUNTRY
Israel
YEAR
2022
LANGUAGE
Hebrew with English subtitles
DISTRIBUTOR
Greenwich Entertainment
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2022 Jerusalem Film Festival – Winner: Best Screenplay, Best Original Score, 2022 Berlin Film Festival – Nominee: Panorama, Teddy, 2022 Thessaloniki Film Festival – Nominee: Meet the Neighbors Competition