Tag: Nadav Lapid
2025 Cannes: Directors’ Fortnight Section Say Oui to Nadav Lapid’s ‘Yes’
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid was tipped as a last minute entry for the Palme d'Or competition but that didn't pan out and Directors' Fortnight...
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Bi Gan, Lynne Ramsay, Nadav Lapid, Lucrecia Martel…Who Will Claim the Final Comp Spots?
The clock is ticking—it’s the eleventh hour. The Délégué général Thierry Frémaux is deep in the final throes of curating this year’s Competition lineup...
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Hafsia Herzi, Óliver Laxe & Rebecca Zlotowski?
La Petite Dernière
Hafsia Herzi
Producers: June Films' Naomi Denamur and Julie Billy
World Sales: mk2
In her first pair of attempts, actress-filmmaker Hafsia Herzi has managed to...
2024 Eurimages: Visar Morina, Hlynur Pálmason, Nadav Lapid, Valentyn Vasyanovych & Dardennes Receive Support
The results of the second Eurimages Project Evaluation Session for 2024 have just been announced and we are finding some major projects in the...
Snow Queen: Marion Cotillard Toplines Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “La Tour de glace”
ARTE France Cinéma have thrown their support behind a quintet of projects and among them we find Lucile Hadzihalilovic re-teaming with Marion Cotillard for...
Ahed’s Knee | Review
Kneedful Things: Lapid Highlights Complex Conflicts in Indignant Screech
The entirety of Ahed’s Knee, the fourth film from Israel’s Nadav Lapid, is formatted to aggravate...
TIFF 2021: Titane Opens Midnight Madness / Quinzaine Fills Wavelengths & The Gravedigger’s Wife & Compartment No. 6 Among Prestige Items
With only one more Wednesday announcement left in the bank (competition Platform section and the shorts get announced next week) today we saw the...
2021 Giornate degli Autori: Plenty of First Features Plus Antoine Barraud, Iván Fund & Aly Muritiba
And finally it's the Giornate degli Autori folks headed by topper Gaia Furrer that have unveiled their sidebar selections. Of the ten feature films...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee
He saw his second feature (The Kindergarten Teacher) play at the Critics Week (and be adapted into a U.S remake shortly after) certainly jury...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #13. Nadav Lapid’s Le Genou d’Ahed
Le Genou d’Ahed
Produced by Judith Lou Lévy, Eve Robin, Osnat Handelsman-Keren
Directed by Nadav Lapid
Written by Nadav Lapid
Starring: Avshalom Pollak, Nur Fibak
Cinematographer: Shai Goldman
Release...
Lost in Translation: Lapid Languishes in Enigmatic, Complex Study on Cultural Identities with “Synonyms” | Blu-ray Review
Winning the Golden Bear at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival, Nadav Lapid’s third film Synonyms was one of the best theatrical releases of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #6. Le Genou – Nadav Lapid
Le Genou d’Ahed
Produced by Les Films du Bal's Judith Lou Lévy, Eve Robin / Pie Films
Directed by Nadav Lapid
Written by Nadav Lapid
Release Date/Prediction: 2020...
Synonyms | Review
Lost in Translation: Lapid Languishes in Enigmatic, Complex Study on Cultural Identities
The rejection of self and the adoption of persona are prominent themes pouring...
The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!
The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...
The Conversation: The Din in Berlin – Top 10 Best of the 69th Berlinale
The 69th Berlinale will be remembered as a rather curious transitional year for the festival, the final year of its 4th director, Dieter Kosslick,...
2019 Berlin Intl. Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
For its 69th edition of the festival, Berlin presents a varied and unpredictable lineup of international auteurs. Plenty of returning luminaries are present, including...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #37. Synonymes – Nadav Lapid
Synonymes
Israeli director Nadav Lapid breaks into French cinema with his long-gestating third feature Synonymes (Synonyms). Produced by Said Ben Said and Michel Merkt, the young cast...
Video: Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Vaguely familiar in its form, it was a definite case of deja vu as I've assisted at both world premiere screenings for the 2014...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions VI: Middle East Repped by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jafar Panahi & Hiner Saleem
We can anticipate a handful of items from the Middle East, Africa, and India will populate several sidebars, if not the competition itself. Turkey,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #39. Nadav Lapid’s Synonymes
Synonymes
Israeli director Nadav Lapid, who broke out with 2011 debut Policeman at the Locarno Film Festival (where it won the Special Jury Prize) should...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #62. Nadav Lapid’s Micro Robert
Micro Robert
Director: Nadav Lapid
Writer: Nadav Lapid
As the project was announced in 2015, we had high hopes the third film from Israeli director Nadav Lapid,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #35. Nadav Lapid’s Micro Robert
Micro Robert
Director: Nadav Lapid
Writer: Nadav Lapid
Israeli director Nadav Lapid is set to make his third film, Micro Robert, in France. Following his 2011 debut...
The Kindergarten Teacher | Blu-ray Review
Released at the end of July in a limited theatrical run via Kino Lorber, a bit over a year after premiering out of...
Expat in Paris: Nadav Lapid Opens Pages to “Micro Robert”
Nadav Lapid will dig into his own Parisian experience from over a decade back with his third feature film, the mini format dictionary referenced title...
The Kindergarten Teacher | Review
Dangerous Minds: Lapid’s Sophomore Film a Bizarre, Engrossing Character Study
Repressed desires find an unexpected outlet in Israeli director Nadav Lapid’s sophomore film, The Kindergarten...
Toddlerized Beat Generation: Kino Lorber Digs “The Kindergarten Teacher” from Sandbox
His allegorical, dense and at times discomforting sophomore film received a Special Screening slot during Cannes Film Fest's 2014 Critics' Week (see our video...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: Picks 100 to 6
While DC and Marvel might already have a lock on several future release dates past the 2015 campaign with the Coen Bros. circling February...
European Film Awards: Vogt, Östlund, Pawlikowski, Zvyagintsev , Glazer & Ceylan Among 50 Contenders
This year’s European Film Awards are officially out of the gates with a not so lean 50 film submissions to select from. The 27th...
Policeman | Review
Israeli vs. Israeli terrorist drama is a timely, thrilling provocation
The opening scene of Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid’s subversive, original terrorist drama Policeman is a...
2014 Critics’ Week: Djinn Carrénard, David Robert Mitchell, Nadav Lapid & Mélanie Laurent Populate 53rd Edition
It's almost astonishing that we've managed to guess two (we also had Nadav Lapid pegged for the Main Comp) of the eleven titles unveiled by...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #37. Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher
The Kindergarten Teacher
Director/Writer: Nadav Lapid
Producer(s): TBA
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: TBA
Israel’s next big director left quite the impression on the fest circuit notably at fests...
