Greenwich Entertainment acquired the 2022 Jerusalem Film Festival Audience Award Winner Karaoke, written and directed by Moshe Rosenthal.
After a number of award-winning short films and TV work (including millennial dating web series Confess, for which AMC Networks acquired US remake rights), Karaoke is Rosenthal’s debut feature and in addition to the Audience Award, the Jerusalem jury also awarded him the Best First Feature prize. The film had its world premiere earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film stars leading Israeli actors Lior Ashkenazi (Footnote, Foxtrot), Sasson Gabbay (The Bands Visit), and Rita Shukrun.
Karaoke is a sly comedy of manners about Meir (Gabbay) and Tova (Shukrun), an upper-middle-class, early sixty-something couple living comfortably in an upscale apartment building outside of Tel Aviv. He’s a professor on sabbatical and she runs a boutique and has two grown daughters but is in a bit of a rut. Into their lives enters the charming, flashy Itzik (Ashkenazi), a talent agency owner newly arrived from Miami and now occupying the penthouse of the high rise where he likes to throw parties much to the annoyance and envy of the rest of the building. Meir and Tova get a coveted invitation and are soon drawn into his orbit as they find themselves competing for his attention while acting out long-dormant ambitions and identities.
“Truly excited to have the entire team at Greenwich championing my debut and bringing it to North American audiences. I’ve always admired their remarkable taste in filmmakers and their ability to release titles that play very broad, yet feel extremely distinctive at the same time – A perfect fit for a film like Karaoke, which is entertaining as much as it is profound,” says Rosenthal.
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