“Yes” by Nadav Lapid: constant intoxication

Can the impact of October 7 on Israel be filmed? Israeli director Nadav Lapid dared to do it. The results are both amazing and confusing.

November 14, 2025, 18:12

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Nadav Lapid’s film “Yes” discusses the disorientation in Israel after the terrorist attacks by Hamas. Protagonists Yud and Yasmin live in a world of luxury and decadence while there is war outside. Yod was commissioned to compose a nationalist song that transcended the absurdity of reality. This film invites us to face loss of orientation without falling into simplicity. “Yes” is a complex and challenging film that reflects the complexities of war, society and individual responsibility.

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One of the most terrifying things, both in movies and in real life, is losing one’s orientation. And almost as bad as loss of orientation in space and time is moral disorientation. In addition to total destruction, the country is also subject to all kinds of terror – and the ills of our time. That film Yes by Nadav Lapid (with the film Synonym (he won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 2019) is a film about the disorientation in Israel following terrorist attacks by Hamas and the war of extermination in response. But most importantly, he himself conveyed his experience of this situation.