JA!

On the day after October 7, the jazz musician Y. (Ariel Bronz) and his wife Yasmin (Efrat Dor), a dancer, try to find footing in a country that has been torn apart. Their art becomes a commodity, their effort a gesture of consolation. They perform wherever they are allowed to, selling whatever they can offer – sound, movement, closeness.

Eventually, Y. receives an extraordinary commission: he is asked to compose the new Israeli national anthem. A task that demands more than musical talent – it requires taking a stance in the midst of a collective trauma.

★★★★ “A biting satire of Israel’s ruling classes, brimming with political urgency.” — The Guardian

“To ignore voices like Lapid’s would mean detaching the war in Gaza from the lived reality on the ground and turning it into an abstract debate.” — Der Spiegel