East Coast premiere of "Concerned Citizen" for World Refugee Day

Belmont World Film holds its annual World Refugee Day observance and celebrates Pride Month in June with the East Coast premiere of the Israeli film Concerned Citizen, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival. The film will be shown both in-person on World Refugee Day, Monday, June 20, at 7 PM at the West Newton Cinema (1296 Washington Street) and online from June 13-19.

Audience members will have access to a Q&A with the film’s director, Idan Haguel, pre-recorded especially for Belmont World Film and moderated by Avner Shavit, one of the most prominent film critics in Israel and currently a professor at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. There will also be a live discussion following the in-person screening at the West Newton Cinema. The screening is sponsored by the Israeli Consulate in New England It is co-presented by Wicked Queer Film Festival and LexPride.

The film concerns Ben and Raz, a gay couple living in an updated flat in a migrant neighborhood, who are painstakingly pursuing their desire to have a child. But a conflict over a newly planted tree across the street from their apartment brings deep-seated prejudices to light in this satirical parable.