Movies - Yes Repeat No : the film will have its European premiere in Paris on April 15 at the ÉCU festival

By Mulder, 08 april 2023

Michael Moshe Dahan's Yes Repeat No will have its European premiere in Paris on April 15 at the European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU).

Yes Repeat No is a complex and layered conceptual feature film by Michael Moshe Dahan. In the film, three actors audition to play the role of Palestinian-Jewish actor and activist Juliano Mer-Khamis, a former IDF paratrooper who provocatively identified himself as "100% Palestinian and 100% Jewish." During a tense rehearsal to determine which of them is best suited to play Juliano Mer-Khamis with authenticity, the three Julianos find their sense of identity fractured and disrupted. Murdered on the steps of the theater he founded in Jenin, Juliano Mer-Khamis saw himself as the living embodiment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While switching codes between the conflicting identities he embodied, he was considered an Arab in Israel and a Jew in Jenin. Yes Repeat No asks whether it is remembering our past - or forgetting it - that allows us to break the cycles of identity and conflict.

Yes Repeat No has its European premiere at the European Independent Film Festival. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Michael Moshe Dahan and Karim Saleh.

Synopsis: 
Three actors audition to play the role of Juliano Mer-Khamis, a Palestinian-Jewish actor and activist, a former IDF paratrooper who provocatively identified himself as "100% Palestinian and 100% Jewish."

Yes Repeat No
Written and directed by Michael Moshe Dahan
Produced by N. Braxton Pope, Michael Moshe Dahan, Sarah Szalavitz
With Salome Azizi, Mousa Hussein Kraish, Adam Meir and Karim Saleh
Music: Akram Haddad, Abe Hathot
Cinematography: B.J. Iwen
Editing: Benjamin Shearn                             
Running time: 98 minutes

(Source : press release)