Nadav Lapid's Yes follows a musician couple who decide to say yes to every demand placed on them, using that single word as the engine for a 2025 drama with dark comic edges.
What is Yes about?
Y. is a jazz musician; his wife Yasmin is a dancer. In the period after October 7, the two agree to accept every offer that comes their way, placing themselves and their talents at the service of powerful patrons across Israel's social, political, and military circles. That arrangement eventually leads Y. to a single, consuming assignment: composing music for a new national anthem. The film tracks what the couple gains and gives up as they keep saying yes, using their compromises as a lens on a country in a specific, turbulent moment.
About the cast
Ariel Bronz and Efrat Dor lead as Y. and Yasmin, with Naama Preis, Aleksey Serebryakov, Sharon Alexander, Pablo Pillaud-Vivien, Idit Teperson, and Shira Shaish rounding out the ensemble. Director Nadav Lapid, known for a confrontational, form-forward style, builds the film around his two leads' willingness to play characters defined by compliance and self-erasure.
Context & significance
Yes is a 2025 co-production between Israel, France, Cyprus, and Germany, running 152 minutes and blending drama with comedy. It sets its story in the specific aftermath of October 7, using that backdrop as historical context for its characters' choices rather than as a subject the film argues about directly. Lapid's earlier work has traveled widely on the festival circuit, and Yes continues his interest in characters who reveal a society by how far they'll bend to remain inside it.
Watching Yes on Ktime
Yes is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so it can be watched in either mode. Reading about the film requires no account at all; watching it just needs a free K-Time login, through the same Farsi-friendly interface used across the rest of the catalog.