Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Ahed’s Knee, with plans to release the Cannes Jury Prize winner in theaters early next year.The fifth feature film from Israeli director Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher, Synonyms) will then get a VOD release on Kino Now, also debuting on all other major digital platforms and home video.Ahed’s Knee (Ha’Berech) tells the story of Y (Avshalom Pollak), a celebrated Israeli filmmaker who arrives in a remote desert village to present one of his films at a local library.Struggling to cope with the recent news of his mother’s fatal illness, he is pushed into a spiral of rage when the host of the screening—a government employee—asks him to sign a form placing restrictions on what he can say at
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