Since its founding in 1969 by the French Directors’ Guild, the Directors’ Fortnight has served as a vital and boldly independent counter program to the Cannes Film Festival. Following a successful launch in 2024, Directors’ Fortnight Extended returns to Los Angeles with a curated selection of the 2025 program at the Directors Guild of America.
Multi-film Fortnight Extended passes can be purchased here.
About the film:
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.
TRT: 150 min
Directors' Fortnight Extended: Los Angeles is presented by the Quinzaine des cinéastes, Acropolis Cinema,Villa Albertine, MUBI, European Languages and Movies in America (ELMA), and the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities.
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"As sincere in its satire as it is satirical in its sincerity, the deliriously provocative Yes is a veritable orgy of self-loathing surrender that reaffirms Lapid as the world’s most visceral director." —David Ehrlich, Indiewire
"A whirling, maximalist satire at once despairing and exuberant, subtle as a cannonball in its evisceration of the ruling classes and those who obey them, it’s both absurdist comedy and serious-as-cancer polemic." —Guy Lodge, Variety
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