The rising star of Israeli cinema Nadav Lapid launched a blistering attack on censorship in his country with Cannes entry “Ahed’s Knee” on Wednesday, telling AFP that his countrymen remain “diseased and blinded” by politics.
The 46-year-old director won the top prize at the Berlin film festival in 2019 for “Synonyms,” a loosely autobiographical story about a young man trying to shed his Israeli identity when he moves to Paris.
His latest, in competition for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, is also based on a real-life event: a call Lapid received from an Israeli official, inviting him to present a film in a remote desert village, but also asking him to sign a form promising to stick t…
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