Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Adds Nadav Lapid’s ‘Yes!’ To 2025 Line-Up​on April 24, 2025 at 3:29 pm

Cannes parallel section Directors’ Fortnight has added Israeli director Nadav Lapid’s Yes! (Ken!) to its 2025 selection. Set in the aftermath of the October 7, Hamas attacks on Israel, the film  revolves around a struggling jazz musician, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, who give their art, souls, and bodies to the highest bidder, bringing […]Cannes parallel section Directors’ Fortnight has added Israeli director Nadav Lapid’s Yes! (Ken!) to its 2025 selection. Set in the aftermath of the October 7, Hamas attacks on Israel, the film  revolves around a struggling jazz musician, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, who give their art, souls, and bodies to the highest bidder, bringing   

Cannes parallel section Directors’ Fortnight has added Israeli director Nadav Lapid’s Yes! (Ken!) to its 2025 selection.

Set in the aftermath of the October 7, Hamas attacks on Israel, the film  revolves around a struggling jazz musician, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, who give their art, souls, and bodies to the highest bidder, bringing pleasure and consolation to their bleeding country.

This endeavor sees the jazz musician entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance: to set a new national anthem to music.

Lapid was last in Cannes in 2021 with Ahed’s Knee which shared the Jury Prize with Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria.