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.
Nadav Lapid
Born in 1975 in Tel Aviv, he directed three short films, published a novel and worked as a literary critic and sports journalist, before joining the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation in 2007, where he wrote the screenplay of his first feature film, ‘Policeman’. Since then, he has been awarded in the most prestigious festivals with the Jury Prize at Locarno in 2011 for ‘Policeman’, a selection at Cannes Critics’ Week for ‘The Kindergarten Teacher’, the Golden Bear of the Berlinale in 2019 for ‘Synonyms’ and the Jury Prize of the Cannes Film Festival in 2021 for ‘Ahed’s Knee’. ‘Ken’, his fifth feature film, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight.
DIRECTOR
Nadav Lapid
SCREENPLAY
Nadav Lapid
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Shaï Goldman
EDITOR
Nili Feller
SOUND
Moti Hefetz, Aviv Aldema, Adrian Baumeister
MUSIC
Sleeping Giant, Omer Klein
PRODUCTION
Judith Lou Lévy, Hugo Sélignac, Antoine Lafon, Thomas Alfandari, Janine Teerling, Marios Piperides, Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade, Alain Attal
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Les Films du Bal, Chi-Fou-Mi Productions, AMP Filmworks, Komplizen Film, Bustan Films, Arte France Cinéma, ZDF/ARTE, Trésor Films
