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 be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival 2025. The release date in French cinemas is not yet known.
Synopsis: Israel in the aftermath of October 7. Y., a precarious jazz musician, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, give their art, soul and body to the highest bidder, bringing pleasure and consolation to their bleeding country. Soon, Y. is entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance: to write the music for 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
