Concerned Citizen

A liberal gay man’s well-intentioned attempt at gentrifying his neighbourhood spirals out of control in Idan Haguel's wickedly funny satire.

Ben moves with his boyfriend into an apartment in a neglected but up-and-coming neighbourhood. In an effort to improve the area, Ben plants a tree outside his building, a well-intentioned deed that unwittingly triggers a series of events that result in the brutal arrest of an Eritrean immigrant. Guilt-stricken and shaken, Ben experiences a crisis that threatens to destroy his relationship and aspirations of fatherhood.

Writer-director Idan Haguel’s dark comedy mercilessly dissects the insidious ways in which privilege and entitlement can unleash the prejudice within.