Sex on a grave of colonial violence — Lapid doesn't do subtle.
On a desert road, a couple makes love in front of a monument where, a year earlier, four Palestinian workers had kidnapped their Israeli boss in a protest against the injustices of the Israeli occupation.
Direction
Lapid's debut: visceral, uncompromising, already fully formed.
Cinematography
Desert as witness — the land remembers what people forget.
Director
Nadav Lapid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lapid made this at 29, years before 'The Kindergarten Teacher' and 'Synonyms' — his fixations were already locked: bodies, borders, and the violence of looking away.
The film premiered at Cannes Critics' Week, where programmers called it 'the most hated 15 minutes' — audiences walked out, which Lapid considered the point.
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