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KARAOKE | קריוקי

Dir. Moshe Rosenthal100 min2022

Dir: Moshe Rosenthal
100 min
2022

An offbeat, comedic journey that delights and surprises, Karaoke follows Tova and Meir, a standard aging couple with 46 years of marriage and two grown daughters. They live a comfortable life, with Meir currently on sabbatical from his academic professorship, and Tova running a boutique shop. Their lives get a jolt of excitement from their neighbor from above, Itzik, who invites them to his penthouse for karaoke nights. Tova and Meir fall hard for Itzik’s energetic lifestyle. They enter into a competition amongst their other neighbors and soon themselves, trying to win Itzik’s attention.

  • Moshe Rosenthal is an Israeli filmmaker who writes, directs and creates feature films, television and web series. He is a graduate of the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University. His debut film Karaoke premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and won Best Debut Film Award and Audience Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival and was nominated for 14 Israeli academy awards, including best picture and best director. Writer and director of Shabbaton (18 min, 2016), won Best Director Award at Jerusalem FF, Best Short at Zlin FF. His short, Our Way Back (26 min, 2018) was screened at BFI FF, nominated for the Israeli Academy Award 2018, and was theatrically released in Israel. His web- series Confess won several awards including the Grand Prix Award and Best Screenplay Award at the Marseille Web Fest and Best Director Award at the 2017 Sicily web fest. Moshe participated in the International Jerusalem Film Lab, where he received a jury award for his second feature “Independence”, which is currently in production.

Credits

CATEGORY
Drama, Comedy
DIRECTOR
Moshe Rosenthal
SCREENPLAY
Moshe Rosenthal
PRODUCER
Efrat Cohen, Ben Giladi, Dubi Rubinstein, Dominique Welinski
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Gaudeamus Productions, Liminal Content
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Daniel Miller
EDITOR
Dafi Farbman
MUSIC
Gal Lev, Lior Perla
SOUND
Lior Waitzman
CAST
Sasson Gabay, Rita Shukrun, Lior Ashkenazi
RUNNING TIME
100 min
COUNTRY
Israel
YEAR
2022
LANGUAGE
Hebrew with English subtitles
DISTRIBUTOR
Greenwich Entertainment
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2022 Tribeca Film Festival – Official Selection, 2022 Jerusalem Film Festival – Winner: Best Debut Film & Audience Choice Award, 2022 Israeli Academy Ophir Award – Winner: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Original Score, Best Music

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