Cannes parallel part Administrators’ Fortnight has added Israeli director Nadav Lapid’s Sure! (Ken!) to its 2025 choice.
Set within the aftermath of the October 7, Hamas assaults on Israel, the movie revolves round a struggling jazz musician, and his spouse Jasmine, a dancer, who give their artwork, souls, and our bodies to the best bidder, bringing pleasure and comfort to their bleeding nation.
This endeavor sees the jazz musician entrusted with a mission of the utmost significance: to set a brand new nationwide anthem to music.
The solid options Ariel Bronz, Efrat Dor, Naama Preis and Alexey Serebryakov.
Lapid was final in Cannes in 2021 with Ahed’s Knee which shared the Jury Prize with Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria. Previous to that, he was in Cannes with breakout function The Kindergarten Trainer, which premiered in Critics’ Week in 2014.
His new movie is one among two Israeli options taking part in in Cannes this yr alongside Or Sinai’s debut function Mama, which was amongst 16 titles added to the Official Choice on Wednesday.
Sure! joins 18 different options beforehand introduced for the part, overseen by the French Administrators Guild (Société des Réalisateurs de Movies), which embrace Enzo by late director Laurent Cantet and Robin Campillo, Eva Victor’s Sorry, Child and Christian Petzold’s Miroirs No. 3.
The 57th version runs from Might 14-22.
