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\n\tKino Lorber has picked up North American rights to Nadav Lapid\u2019s Yes<\/em>, the Israeli director\u2019s political satire set in the aftermath of October 7.<\/p>\n \n\tSet in the days after October 7, Yes<\/em> follows jazz musician Y. (Ariel Bronz) and his wife Yasmine (Efrat Dor), a dancer, who resolve to say yes to everything. Their submission to Israel\u2019s social, political, and military establishment leads Y. to an unexpected commission: Composing the music for a new national anthem.<\/p>\n \n\tYes<\/em>, which premiered in Directors\u2019 Fortnight at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, provoked sharp criticism from the Netanyahu government, with the Ministry of Culture condemning the film for \u201copening the wounds of Israeli society\u201d and officials calling for its removal from the 2025 Jerusalem Film Festival. Despite political opposition, Yes<\/em> received seven Ophir Award nominations, the Israeli equivalent of the Oscar, including best actor for Bronz, best supporting actress for Preis, best director for Lapid, and best picture. As a best picture nominee, it is in contention to represent Israel in the international feature category at the 98th Academy Awards.<\/p>\n \n\tKino Lorber chairman and CEO Richard Lorber called the film \u201can exhilarating, dizzying work of cinematic art,\u201d while Lapid described it as his most difficult project to date. \u201cYes<\/em> is a film about the capacity to say \u2018no\u2019 to power \u2013 a resistant film about submission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \n\tKino Lorber will release Yes<\/em> theatrically, followed by digital, educational, and home entertainment rollouts.<\/p>\n \n\tThe acquisition marks the distributor\u2019s fourth collaboration with Lapid, following The Kindergarten Teacher<\/em>, Berlinale Golden Bear winner Synonyms<\/em>, and Cannes Jury Prize winner Ahed\u2019s Knee<\/em>. <\/p>\n \n\tThe deal was negotiated by Kino Lorber VP of acquisitions Karoliina Dwyer and Alice Lesort for Les Films du Losange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kino Lorber has picked up North American rights to Nadav Lapid\u2019s Yes, the Israeli director\u2019s political satire set in the aftermath of October 7. Set in the days after October 7, Yes follows jazz musician Y. (Ariel Bronz) and his wife Yasmine (Efrat Dor), a dancer, who resolve to say yes to everything. Their submission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[574,2313,10060,10063,10061,10062,242,10064,1167],"class_list":{"0":"post-16800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-israeli","10":"tag-kino","11":"tag-lapids","12":"tag-lorber","13":"tag-nadav","14":"tag-north","15":"tag-shocker","16":"tag-takes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}