Log Line
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. was entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance: to set to music a new national anthem.
YES TRAILER
Festivals / Awards
La Quinzaine des Cinéastes – Cannes 2025 - World Premiere
Credits
Director: Nadav Lapid
Screenplay: Nadav Lapid
Producers: Les Films du Bal (Judith Lou Lévy) et Chi-Fou-Mi Productions (Hugo Sélignac & Antoine Lafon)
Co-Producer: Bustan Films (Thomas Alfandari – Israël), AMP Filmworks (Janine Teerling, Marios Piperides – Chypre), Komplizen Film GmbH (Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dombach, Maren Ade – Allemagne), Arte France Cinéma, Trésor Films (Alain Attal – France)
Director of Photography: Shaï Goldman
Production Design: Pascale Consigny
Editor: Nili Feller
Music: Sleeping Giant With the participation of Omer Klein
Costumes: Sandra Berrebi
CAST
Ariel Bronz, Efrat Dor, Naama Preis, Alexey Serebryakov
Director's Bio/Filmography
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 with the Jury Prize at Locarno in 2011 for Policeman, a selection at Cannes Critics’ Week for The Kindergarten Teacher, 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. Yes is his fifth feature film.
Technical details
Original title: OUI
International title: YES
Duration: 2h29 min
Aspect Ratio: 2.39
Format: (2K/4K): 2K
Sound: Dolby Digital
Year: 2025
Original Language: Hebrew, English
Countries of Production: France, Israel, Cyprus, Germany
Production Companies: Les Films du Bal, Chi-Fou-Mi Productions
Co-production companies: Bustan Films, AMP Filmworks, Komplizen Film GmbH, Arte France Cinéma, ZDF/ Arte, Trésor Films (Alain Attal - France)
With support of: Israel Film Fund, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel Film Council, Eurimages – Council of Europe, Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture, Cyprus Film Commission, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, La Région Bretagne in partnership with the CNC, Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée • In association with 240 Films, Cinemage 18 Developpement, ALBI Film and Television Fund) • International sales & French distribution Les Films du Losange
WORLD SALES
Les Films du Losange
https://filmsdulosange.com/