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Berlin Panorama Title ‘Concerned Citizen’ Acquired by M-Appeal (EXCLUSIVE)

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Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBerlin-based sales outfit M-Appeal has acquired world sales rights to “Concerned Citizen,” the sophomore title from Israeli writer-director Idan Haguel.

The film was selected Tuesday to have its world premiere in the Panorama section at next month’s Berlinale (Feb. 10-16).The film, which stars Shlomi Bertonov and Ariel Wolf, centers around Ben, a politically liberal, gay man who tries to improve his neighborhood in the slums of south Tel Aviv by planting a tree on his street.

This triggers a sequence of events that results in him getting mixed up in the brutal police arrest of an immigrant. The guilt trip that ensues challenges Ben’s self-image and threatens to destroy his relationship and aspirations of fatherhood.

A satirical parable on the insidious ways in which privilege can unleash the prejudice within. “The story is told with an undertone of wry humor throughout,” M-Appeal said in a statement, “as the film navigates the complexities of discrimination, depicting characters who strive to maintain an open-minded, liberal exterior, but who are ultimately intolerant and selfish in their actions.

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