[4][5] At Cannes, the film shared the Jury Prize with Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

While traveling to the Arava desert to screen one of his previous films, and as his mother is dying, the director meets Yahalom (Nour Fibak), a clerk from the Ministry of Culture.

[8] It was invited in the Soul of Asia section at the 52nd International Film Festival of India for screening in November.

The website's critical consensus reads, "An occasionally uneasy blend of human drama and message movie, Ahed's Knee forcefully reaffirms that the personal is political.

"[11] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 80 out of 100 based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".