Berlinale’s ‘Concerned Citizen’ Picked Up for North America, Germany, Austria (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features EditorGreenwich Entertainment has taken North American rights to dark comedy-drama “Concerned Citizen,” which had its world premiere in the Panorama section of the Berlinale.
Salzgeber has taken the rights for Germany and Austria. Berlin-based sales outfit M-Appeal is selling the film.Idan Haguel’s film, a satirical parable on the insidious ways in which privilege can unleash the prejudice within, centers on Ben, who thinks of himself as a liberal and enlightened gay man, living in the perfect apartment with his boyfriend Raz.
All that’s missing to complete the picture is a baby, which the couple are trying to make a reality.Meanwhile, Ben decides to improve his up-and-coming neighborhood in gritty south Tel Aviv by planting a new tree on his street.
But his good deed soon triggers a sequence of events that leads to the brutal police arrest of an Eritrean immigrant. The guilt trip that ensues will fundamentally challenge Ben’s vision of himself and his society, in the process threatening to destroy his relationship and aspirations of fatherhood.
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