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Israeli director Nadav Lapid poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, California on March 30, 2026. (Valerie Macon / AFP)
June 10, 2026, 10:57 pm
Filmmaker Nadav Lapid receives industry support after boycott at film festival
Hundreds of artists defend director, who they call ‘Israel’s greatest dissident artist’; Lapid, a vociferous critic of Israel, warns of the dangers of silencing debate
By Jessica Steinberg
Nadav Lapid's 'Yes!' (courtesy)
April 18, 2026, 11:34 am
Nadav Lapid’s ‘Yes!’: Israeli director’s wartime film raises eyebrows and ire
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor dissect the controversial film, now screening in select theaters in the United States
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
An Israeli artist couple (Efrat Dor and Ariel Bronz) sell their souls to the ruling elite in the provocative film 'Yes!' from director Nadav Lapid. (Courtesy of Kino Lorber via JTA)
April 10, 2026, 1:30 am
In ‘Yes!,’ Israeli director Nadav Lapid skewers the country’s ‘moral abyss’ after Oct. 7
Now in limited theatrical release in the US nearly a year after its premiere at Cannes, the film is intensely critical of Israel, even as it has faced boycotts by pro-Palestinian activists
By Andrew Lapin
Israeli director Nadav Lapid poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, California on March 30, 2026. (Valerie Macon / AFP)
April 3, 2026, 9:22 am
‘Dancing with the devil’: Nadav Lapid wants his satire film ‘Yes’ to ‘shake souls’
Director says his latest, set in the wake of the October 7 attack, isn’t about Israel per se, but rather a mix of ‘vulgarity, nationalism and authoritarianism’ around the world
By AFP and ToI Staff
Israeli director Nadav Lapid poses during a photocall for the film 'Ha'Berech' (Ahed's Knee) at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 8, 2021. (Valery HACHE / AFP)
May 24, 2025, 8:34 am
Israeli director Nadav Lapid says new film is response to country’s ‘blindness’ on Gaza
‘Yes’, which premiered at the Cannes festival, follows artist tasked after Oct. 7 with changing national anthem’s theme from Jewish hope to Palestinian eradication
By AFP and ToI Staff
Iranian filmmaker and activist Sepideh Farsi looks at a portrait of the Palestinian photographer Fatima Hassouna, during a photo session at her home in Paris on May 5, 2025. (JOEL SAGET / AFP)
May 11, 2025, 7:21 pm
Film about Gaza photojournalist premieres at Cannes this week after her death in airstrike
Fatima Hassouna and 10 relatives were killed in northern Gaza in a strike last month targeting a Hamas operative, the day after she learned the film had been chosen
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israeli filmmaker and jury chair Nadav Lapid, third left, being honored by Indian ministers at the closing ceremony of the International Film Festival of India in Goa, India, Nov.28, 2022. (Press Information Bureau via AP)
November 29, 2022, 3:14 pm
Israeli ambassador slams Israeli filmmaker for comments at Indian film festival
Envoy Naor Gilon says Nadav Lapid should ‘be ashamed’ for ‘abusing Indian hospitality,’ being insensitive to Hindus after filmmaker calls ‘The Kashmir Files’ ‘vulgar propaganda’
By Tobias Siegal and AP
Illustrative: The northern West Bank settlement of Rehelim. (Samaria Regional Council)
September 7, 2022, 10:24 pm
Filmmakers trade jabs over so-called ‘settler film fund’
Israel’s top directors and actors come out strongly against West Bank-based film organization created by former culture minister Miri Regev
By Jessica Steinberg
An Israeli filmmaker named Y (Avshalom Pollak) makes a series of radical decisions in the movie 'Ahed's Knee,' written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid. (Kino Lorber/ via JTA)
March 23, 2022, 3:28 am
An Israeli director battles the country’s culture ministry in a provocative new film
Now screening in the US, director Nadav Lapid’s new film draws heavily from its maker’s experiences as it lampoons the measures taken to persuade artists to toe the party line
By Andrew Lapin
Olivia Colman stars as Leda in 'The Lost Daughter,' directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and produced by Israeli producers, Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman-Keren of Pie Films (Courtesy YANNIS RAKOULIDIS/ NETFLIX)
December 25, 2021, 8:26 am
Israeli producers put passion into movie version of Ferrante’s ‘The Lost Daughter’
Pie Films’ Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman-Keren turn Maggie Gyllenhaal into a director and the Italian novel into a film
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli director Nadav Lapid give a speech after he was awarded with the Jury Prize for the film "Ha'Berech" during the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on July 17, 2021. (Christophe Simon/AFP)
July 18, 2021, 1:09 am
Israeli director Nadav Lapid’s ‘Ahed’s Knee’ wins jury prize at Cannes
Ceremony marred by jury president Spike Lee mistakenly revealing ‘Titane’ as Palme d’Or winner at start of evening; top prize goes to female director for only second time
By Agencies
(From L) Israeli actress Nur Fibak, Israeli director Nadav Lapid and Israeli actor Avshalom Pollak pose as they arrive for the screening of the film 'Ha'Berech' (Ahed's Knee) at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 7, 2021. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
July 7, 2021, 9:54 pm
Israel entry at Cannes confronts ‘censorship of the soul’
Nadav Lapid, director of ‘Ahed’s Knee,’ launches blistering attack on what he claims are Israeli government attempts to silence filmmakers
By AFP and ToI Staff
'Synonyms' director Nadav Lapid on set. (Courtesy Kino Lorber)
October 25, 2019, 3:42 am
Is filmmaker Nadav Lapid Israel’s best champion — or its biggest dissident?
As semi-autobiographical absurdist film ‘Synonyms’ screens in US from October 25, director explains what is real and not in story about a demobbed Israeli soldier fleeing to Paris
By Jordan Hoffman
Filmmaker Nadav Lapid (left) accepting the Berlinale Golden Bear for his latest film, 'Synonyms' (Courtesy PR)
February 18, 2019, 5:30 pm
Berlin film fest winner Nadav Lapid brings Golden Bear home
Amid congratulations for ‘Synonyms,’ a highly autobiographical story, filmmaker urges Israelis to draw their own conclusions about the film
By Jessica Steinberg
Culture Minister Miri Regev at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, November 8, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Yedioth Ahronoth/Pool)
February 18, 2019, 2:42 am
Culture minister says congratulations, maybe, to Berlin Film Festival winner
Miri Regev says she has no idea what’s in the Israeli-French film ‘Synonyms, and hopes the movie will not disappoint her by being anti-Israel
By ToI Staff
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