CFD 26| Yes

CINEMAS OF DISSENT

Yes
LEM 22/04 > 22:00 | NIC 19/04 > 22:00
150', 2025, France, Cyprus, Israel, Germany

Directed by
Nadav Lapid

Screenplay
Nadav Lapid

Cinematography
Shaï Goldman

Editing
Nili Feller

Music
Sleeping Giant
with the participation of
Omer Klein

Sound design
Moti Hefetz

Costume design
Sandra Berrebi

Cast
Ariel Bronz
Efrat Dor
Naama Preis
Alexey Serebryakov

Producers
Judith Lou Lévy
Hugo Sélignac
Antoine Lafon

Production companies
Les Films du Bal
Chi-Fou-Mi Productions

Co-producers
Janine Teerling
Marios Piperides
Thomas Alfandari
Janine Jackowski
Jonas Dombach
Maren Ade
Alain Attal

Co-production companies
AMP Filmworks
Bustan Films
Komplizen Film GmbH
Trésor Films

Israel, the day after October 7. Y., a precarious jazz musician, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, give their art, soul and body to the highest bidders, bring pleasure and consolation to their bleeding country. Soon, Y. is entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance: to set to music a new national anthem.

Born in 1975 in Tel Aviv, Nadav Lapid directed three short films, published a novel, and worked as a literary critic and sports journalist before joining the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation in 2007, where he wrote the screenplay of his first feature film, Policeman. Since then, he has received major awards at some of the world’s most prestigious festivals, including the Jury Prize at Locarno in 2011 for Policeman, a selection at Cannes Critics’ Week for The Kindergarten Teacher, the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2019 for Synonyms, and the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival in 2021 for Ahed’s Knee. Yes is his fifth feature film.

Filmography

2025 Yes
2021 Ahed’s Knee
2021 The Star (s.f.)
2019 Synonyms
2016 From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer
2015 Why? (s.f.)
2014 The Kindergarten Teacher
2014 Ammunition Hill (s.f.)
2011 Policeman
2007 Émile’s Girlfriend
2005 Kvish (s.f.)
2004 Protect Gvul (s.f.)

Awards

Ten Best Films 2025, Cahiers du Cinéma, France, 2025.