To anyone who has been following Nadav Lapid’s work over the years, the acclaimed Israeli director’s critique of Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files at the International Film Festival of India’s closing ceremony on Monday would not have come as a surprise. Since the beginning of his career, the 47-year-old director, born to a writer and film editor in Tel Aviv, has been making formally daring and provocative political dramas about what it means to be an artist in a heavily militarised Israeli society. Lapid’s Synonyms and Ahed’s Knee have won major awards at reputed film festivals. The films are praised...