Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid says he was “astonished” by the wave of support he received from Natalie Portman , Justine Triet, Jacques Audiard and hundreds of other film figures after the boycott campaign that led him to withdraw from Marseille’s FID Festival, where he had been invited as a juror. He was even more surprised to see his case turn, within days, into one of the most fiercely debated cultural flashpoints of the year. In a wide-ranging interview with Variety , Lapid, who has lived