At Home #10 - Synonyms’s Nadav Lapid

The Film Comment Podcast

For our latest daily edition of the podcast, we reached out again to a filmmaker for a report from another corner of the world. Nadav Lapid is the director of The Kindergarten Teacher, The Policeman, and most recently, Synonyms, which played in The New York Film Festival and before that won the top prize at Berlin. Film Comment Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold interviewed Nadav about The Kindergarten Teacher at its premiere in Cannes, and in our July-August 2019 issue, the director sat down with Jordan Cronk for a conversation about Synonyms. The filmmaker spoke to us from Tel Aviv this time about working on his next feature under the current circumstances, and a couple of movies that came to mind in the process. I was joined by Devika Girish, assistant editor. And as we enter another week of the pandemic, we hope that all of our listeners are staying safe. If you’re a longtime Film Comment subscriber, listener, or reader, or are just tuning in now, please consider becoming a member or making a donation to our publisher, Film at Lincoln Center, during these unprecedented times: purchase.filmlinc.org/donate/contribute2