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57th edition May 14-24, 2025

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Nadav LAPID

Quinzaine 2025 | Feature film | 150 min | France, Israel, Cyprus, Germany |
World premiere

Israel, in the aftermath of October 7.
Y., a jazz musician struggling to make ends meet, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, sell their art, souls and bodies to the elite, and bring pleasure and consolation to a bleeding nation.
Soon, Y. is given a mission of the highest importance: setting to music a new national anthem.

Artistic & technical sheet

Contacts

With

Ariel Bronz (Y.), Efrat Dor (Yasmin), Naama Preis (Leah), Alexey Serebryakov (Big Billionaire), Sharon Alexander

Screenplay
Nadav Lapid
Sound
Moti Hefetz, Aviv Aldema
Production design
Pascale Consigny
Photography
Shaï Goldman
Editing
Nili Feller
Production

Les Films du Bal (France)
Judith Lou Lévy 
info@lesfilmsdubal.com 

Chi-Fou-Mi Productions (France)
Hugo Sélignac
Antoine Lafon
info@chifoumiprod.com  

With the participation of

ZDF/Arte (Germany)

French press

Monica Donati
monica.donati@mk2.com  

Coproduction

Bustan Films (Israël)
Thomas Alfandari

AMP Filmworks (Chypre)
Janine Teerling
Marios Piperides

Komplizen Film GmbH (Allemagne)
Janine Jackowski
Jonas Dombach
Maren Ade

Arte France Cinéma (France)

Distribution (France)

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, he has been awarded in the most prestigious festivals, including the Golden Bear of the Berlinale in 2019 for Synonyms and the Jury Prize of the Cannes Film Festival in 2021 for Ahed’s Knee.