In cooperation with ZDF and ARTE

Feature film - F, ISR, ZYP, D 2025 - 149' - OmeU

Director: Nadav Lapid

A political grotesque full of sadness and anger about Israel after October 7, 2023. Y is a jazz musician who says "yes" to everything, times are hard and you have to survive somehow. And so he does not refuse when he is asked to compose a new national anthem that celebrates the destruction of Gaza and its inhabitants. YES ignores neither the barbaric acts of Hamas nor the moral corruption of Israel's current ruling elite. A film like a wrecking ball, full of force and uncomfortable truths about power and art, as only the Berlinale winner Nadav Lapid (SYNONYMES) could have done.

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