11.09.2025 | YES (FR/IL/CY/DE 2025, Nadav Lapid)

FR/IL/CY/DE 2025, D: Nadav Lapid, A: Ariel Bronz, Efrat Dor, Naama Preis, Alexey Serebryakov, 149’, OV with English subtitles, DCP

Y., a musician, and Jasmine, a dancer, live the life of young parents in Tel Aviv. Shaken by the 7th of October, they operate between half-baked suppression, everyday life with a child and an escapist permanent party mode. They say Yes to a world of money, champagne and exaggerated nationalism. When a Russian super oligarch commissions Y. to write a new national anthem for Israel, he travels with his old love Leah to the Gaza border, where the bombs and bulldozers are raging, and ends up delivering the sounds – and words – for a cynical revenge song. Children’s choir included. A grotesque parable about the pleasurable affirmation of bootlicking. It involves dancing, singing and doing coke; vomiting, suffering, stoning and loving. An emphatic YES! With all its contradictions.