FREESTYLE DIGITAL MEDIA RELEASES DRAMA FEATURE 'YES REPEAT NO'
Freestyle Digital Media proudly announces the release of the drama YES REPEAT NO, which is now available to rent/own on North American digital HD internet, DVD, cable, and satellite platforms, on November 11, 2025
Drama Feature Sets Digital Debut on North American VOD Platforms and DVD on November 11, 2025
LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, November 11, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has just released the drama YES REPEAT NO, now available to rent/own on North American digital HD internet, DVD, cable, and satellite platforms, on November 11, 2025.
YES REPEAT NO explores the complexity of the overlapping identities of Juliano Mer-Khamis, a Palestinian Jew who was assassinated on the steps of the theatre he founded in Jenin. This movie tells the story of three actors who audition to play the Palestinian-Jewish actor and activist, Juliano Mer-Khamis, a former IDF paratrooper who defiantly identified as “100% Palestinian and 100% Jewish.” Mer-Khamis considered himself a living embodiment of the Palestine-Israel conflict. 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 THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL (1984) and MIRAL (2010). Later becoming a director, theater founder and political activist, Mer-Khamis considered himself a living embodiment of the Palestine-Israel conflict.
Code-switching between the conflicting identities he inhabited, Mer-Khamis understood he’d always be viewed as an Arab in Israel and as a Jew in Jenin, just as he’d been typecast as a terrorist by Hollywood. During a tense rehearsal meant to determine which actor is most suited to authentically portray Juliano Mer-Khamis, the three Julianos find their sense-of-self fractured and disrupted.
On 10/7/23, YES REPEAT NO’s writer/director, Michael Dahan was en-route to the Warsaw Film Festival. By the time it screened, a film examining difficult and complex themes took on global relevance. Produced in the bubble of the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was a collaboration between Palestinians, Israelis, and Americans – defying decades-long refusal of Palestinians and Israelis to participate in art and culture that included the other. Immediately, YES REPEAT NO became broadly accessible to a public deeply engaged with the conflict in Palestine and Israel. YES REPEAT NO asks if one man’s identity can not only embody conflicts that are older than history, but perhaps, in some version of the future, also help resolve them. The film asks whether it is remembering our past--or, instead, forgetting it— that allows us to break cycles of identity and conflict.
Written and directed by Michael Moshe Dahan, YES REPEAT NO was produced by Dahan, N. Braxton Pope (THE CARD COUNTER, THE BASICS OF PHILOSOPHY) and Sarah Szalavitz (STUCK IN NEUTRAL, SURVIVING JEFFREY EPSTEIN). Featured cast includes: Salome Azizi (‘The Director’), Mousa Kraish (‘Arab Juliano’), Adam Meir (‘Public Juliano’) and Karim Saleh (‘Israeli Juliano’).
“Because we made this film before October 7th, we could examine our collective, fraught history with nuance and compassion, without clinging to “sides”. We want to build bridges rather than fan flames, and to challenge our viewers’ understanding of the conflict,” said filmmaker Michael Dahan. “By 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, YES REPEAT NO insists on imagining a better future and encourages its audience to feel more understood and less alone.”
Freestyle Digital Media negotiated a deal to acquire YES REPEAT NO directly with the filmmakers and Glen Reynolds of Circus Road Films.
YES REPEAT NO website: https://www.yesrepeatnofilm.com
About Freestyle Digital Media
The digital distribution unit of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, Freestyle Digital Media, is a premiere multi-platform distributor with direct partnerships across all major cable, satellite, digital, and streaming platforms. Capitalizing on a robust infrastructure, proven track record, and a veteran sales team, Freestyle Digital Media is a true home for independent films. Recent releases include ALLSWELL IN NEW YORK starring Emmy award-winning actress Liza Colón-Zayas from the hit FX series THE BEAR, ALL HAPPY FAMILIES starring Josh Radnor and Rob Huebel, the drama based on a novel THE GHOST TRAP starring Zak Steiner from EUPHORIA and Greer Grammer of AWKWARD, and the Weekly World News horror-comedy THE ZOMBIE WEDDING. Other Freestyle Digital Media titles include THE ROAD DOG starring comedian Doug Stanhope, SURVIVE starring HBO’s GAME OF THRONES star Sophie Turner and Corey Hawkins, the music documentary profiling blues guitar legends Jimmie Vaughan and Stevie Ray Vaughan, BROTHERS IN BLUES, DEAR ZOE starring Sadie Sink from the hit Netflix series STRANGER THINGS, Jessica Capshaw and Theo Rossi, the teen musical BEST SUMMER EVER featuring a fully integrated cast and crew of people with and without disabilities, produced by Jamie Lee Curtis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary Steenburgen, and Ted Danson, and THE WEDDING YEAR starring Sarah Hyland and Anna Camp.
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Official FDM Trailer - YES REPEAT NO (2025)
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