Starting today, we’re excited to launch special screenings of Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher (2014) and Synonyms (2019) in the FLC Virtual Cinema, in anticipation of Ahed’s Knee, an NYFF59 selection, opening in our theaters on March 18. Both films are free for FLC Members who have pre-ordered a ticket to Ahed’s Knee, through March 17. Learn more about becoming an FLC member.
Join Nadav Lapid in person for Q&As after the 6:00pm screenings on March 18 and March 19! Get tickets here.
Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid shows no signs of slowing down in this shattering follow-up to his bat-out-of-hell Synonyms (NYFF57). A film of radical style and splenetic anger, Ahed’s Knee accompanies a celebrated but increasingly dissociated director (Avshalom Pollak) to a small town in the desert region of Arava for a screening of his latest film. Already anguished by the news of his mother’s fatal illness (Lapid’s film was made soon after the death of his own mother, who had worked as his editor for many years), he grows frustrated with a speech-restricting form he is encouraged to sign by a local Ministry of Culture worker (Nur Fibak). The confrontation ultimately sends him into a spiral of rage aimed at what he perceives as the censorship, hypocrisy, and violence of the Israeli government. This boldly shot and conceived work, which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, feels as though it has welled up from the depths of its maker’s soul. A Kino Lorber release. A NYFF59 Main Slate selection.
Watch an exclusive teaser for Ahed’s Knee:
Watch our Q&A with Nadav Lapid from the 59th New York Film Festival:
