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.

Cast & Crew
Producers: Judith Lou Lévy, Hugo Sélignac, Antoine Lafon
Director: Nadav Lapid
Script: Nadav Lapid
Director of Photography: Shaï Goldman
Production Design: Pascale Consigny
Sound: Moti Hefetz, Aviv Aldema
Editing: Nili Feller
Cast: Ariel Bronz, Efrat Dor, Naama Preis, Alexey Serebryakov
Production. Les Films du Bal (France), Chi-Fou-Mi Productions (France)

Nadav Lapid
Born in 1975, Tel Aviv. Nadav Lapid directed three short films, published a novel and worked as a literary critic and sports journalist, before joining the Cannes FF’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 FF in 2021 for Ahed’s Knee.

Filmography
Border Project (doc., 2003), Road (short, 2005), Emile’s Girlfriend (short, 2006), Gaza Sderot: Life in Spite of Everything (doc., 2009), Policeman (2011), Footsteps in Jerusalem (doc., 2013), The Kindergarten Teacher (2014), Love Letter to Cinema (2014), Why? (short, 2015), From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer (short, 2016), Synonymes (2019), Ahed’s Knee (2021), The Star (short, 2021), La Premiere (short, 2022), Yes (2025)․