Nadav Lapid is at home in Cannes. Selected in 2008 for the Cinéfondation residency, where he wrote the screenplay for his first feature Le Policier, the Israeli filmmaker also presented his second feature L'Institutrice at Critics' Week in 2014.
In 2021, he won the Jury Prize (tied with Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria ) for his film Ahed's Knee, two years after winning theGolden Bear at the Berlinale for Synonyms.
No official competition for the Israeli this year, but a selection at Cannes nonetheless - and not just any selection, since Nadav Lapid's fifth feature film, Yes, has been selected for the Quinzaine des Cinéastes 2025.
Yes will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2025. The official release date for French theaters has yet to be announced.
Synopsis : In the days following October 7th in Israel, jazz musician Y., struggling to make ends meet, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, sell their art, their souls, and their bodies to the highest bidders, offering comfort and fleeting pleasure to a bleeding nation. Soon, Y. is entrusted with a crucial task: to compose a new national anthem.
Cannes Festival 2025: The selection of the Directors' Fortnight
Now it's the turn of the Quinzaine des Cinéastes to unveil its selection, which will be screened from May 14 to 24 during the Cannes Film Festival 2025: 28 singular films that resist the dominant ideology, for the 57th edition of this independent film event. [Read more]
Cannes Festival 2025: The selection of the Directors' Fortnight
