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Freestyle Digital Media has acquired the North American rights to \u201cYes Repeat No,\u201d a drama exploring Israeli-Palestinian identity. The film releases Nov. 11 on North American VOD platforms and DVD.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes Repeat No\u201d follows the story of three actors who are auditioning to play Juliano Mer-Khamis, a Palestinian-Jewish actor and activist who was assassinated in 2011 on the steps of the theater he founded in Jenin. Born to an anti-Zionist Jewish mother and a Palestinian Christian Communist father, Mer-Khamis became an internationally acclaimed actor who appeared in films including \u201cThe Little Drummer Girl\u201d and \u201cMiral,\u201d and later began a career as a director, theater founder and a political activist.<\/p>\n
More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYes Repeat No\u201d stars Salome Azizi (\u201cThe Director\u201d), Mousa Kraish (\u201cArab Juliano\u201d), Adam Meir (\u201cPublic Juliano\u201d), and Kariem Saleh (\u201cIsraeli Juliano\u201d).<\/p>\n \u201cBecause we made this film before October 7th, we could examine our collective, fraught history with nuance and compassion, without clinging to \u2018sides.\u2019 We want to build bridges rather than fan flames, and to challenge our viewers\u2019 understanding of the conflict,\u201d said filmmaker Michael Dahan. \u201cBy weaving direct quotes from Palestinian, Israeli, Arab and American leaders throughout the dialogue the film reveals how the meaning of words spoken by political figures such as Arafat, Netanyahu, and others have shifted over time. In a time of conflict, \u2018Yes Repeat No\u2019 insists on imagining a better future and encourages its audience to feel more understood and less alone.\u201d<\/p>\n The film is written and directed by Dahan, who also serves as the film\u2019s producer alongside N. Braxton Pope and Sarah Szalavitz.<\/p>\n Watch the trailer for \u201cYes Repeat No\u201d below.<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Freestyle Digital Media has acquired the North American rights to \u201cYes Repeat No,\u201d a drama exploring Israeli-Palestinian identity. The film releases Nov. 11 on North American VOD platforms and DVD. \u201cYes Repeat No\u201d follows the story of three actors who are auditioning to play Juliano Mer-Khamis, a Palestinian-Jewish actor and activist who was assassinated in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2106992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[347208,398777,398778],"class_list":["post-2106991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-digital-media","tag-juliano-mer-khamis","tag-repeat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Freestyle-Digital-Media-Acquires-North-American-Rights-to-\u2018Yes-Repeat.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106993,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106991\/revisions\/2106993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2106992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}