New Israel Fund UK – in partnership with Albi – invite you to an exclusive London screening of Yes, the bold new Israeli film, followed by a conversation with the director Nadav Lapid, and Albi Founder and President Libby Lenkinski.

Yes is set in the days after 7 October 2023. A jazz musician and his dancer wife decide to say yes to everything – surrendering themselves and their art to Israel’s social, political and military elite. He is soon commissioned to compose a new national anthem. Whirling between satire, sincerity and submission, the film is a fierce, searching portrait of a country at war with itself.

Date: Sunday 5 July 2026
Time: 6pm – 9:15pm (the film is 149 mins and will be followed by a conversation with the Director and short Q&A)
Venue: A Soho location, full details will be sent to ticket holders before the event.

The screening will be followed by a conversation between director Nadav Lapid and Libby Lenkinski, Founder and President of Albi – a fund, institute and lab that uses culture to build new narratives by and about Palestinians and Jews.

Lapid recently faced a boycott campaign that forced him to withdraw from the Marseille FID Festival, where he had been invited as a juror. The pressures confronting Israeli and Palestinian artists working with courage and conscience are becoming ever more visible. This evening is a chance to hear directly from two people at the centre of that fight.

You can read a recent interview with Nadav here, and a Haaretz piece on this topic by Libby here.

“A fierce satire of Israel’s ruling classes, radioactive with political pain.” – The Guardian

“Furiously satirical… tells a vast story of personal and national degradation.” – The New Yorker

“A blistering attack on Israeli nationalism… the firebrand director on seething form.” – Variety

Libby Lenkinski is the founder and president of Albi, a fund, institute, and creative lab that builds cultural infrastructure for shared society through film, television, and the arts. A cultural entrepreneur and impact producer, she works at the intersection of storytelling, philanthropy, and social change across Israel-Palestine, North America, and Europe. Through Albi, she established the first independent film and TV fund dedicated to paradigm-shifting stories in and about Israel-Palestine. She has served as an impact producer or executive producer on films including Budrus, The Law in These Parts, Holding Liat, Sabbath Queen, Coexistence, My Ass, and Issa’s House. Prior to founding Albi, she spent thirteen years at the New Israel Fund, most recently as Vice President for Public Engagement, and helped launch initiatives including +972 Magazine and Zazim.

Nadav Lapid was born in 1975 in Tel Aviv. He directed three short films, published a novel and worked as a literary critic and sports journalist, before joining the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation in 2007, where he wrote the screenplay of his first feature film, Policeman. Since, he has been awarded in the most prestigious festivals with the Jury Prize at Locarno in 2011 for Policeman, a selection at Cannes Critics’ Week for The kindergarten teacher, the Golden Bear of the Berlinale in 2019 for Synonyms and the Jury Prize of the Cannes Film Festival in 2021 for Ahed’s Knee. Yes is his fifth feature film.