Yes

Summary

Set in the aftermath of October 7, “Yes” follows Y., a struggling jazz musician, and his wife, Yasmin, a dancer trying to make a living in an increasingly tense and transactional society. When the couple decides to say yes to every opportunity that comes their way, they begin moving through a world of private parties, wealthy patrons, political operators, and military power brokers. Their artistic talents and personal boundaries become commodities, and the promise of money and access gradually draws them into the orbit of Israel’s social, political, and military elite. Y. and Yasmin are presented as both participants in and observers of this system. Their relationship is shaped by financial pressure, ambition, desire, and the compromises required to survive as artists. What begins as a reckless experiment in permissiveness soon takes on a larger political dimension when Y. is asked to compose the music for a new national anthem—an anthem intended to be stirring, forceful, and uncompromising. The commission places his jazz sensibility in direct conflict with the demands of nationalism and institutional power. Rather than offering a conventional political drama, “Yes” uses satire, performance, and provocation to examine how art can be absorbed by power. The film explores the commercialization of intimacy, the seductions of privilege, and the uneasy relationship between individual freedom and collective identity. It also questions what happens when artists surrender their voices to those who control money, status, and the machinery of the state. Through Y. and Yasmin’s increasingly perilous journey, the film presents a dark, confrontational portrait of a society in crisis—and of the ways people may adapt to, profit from, or become complicit in that crisis.