Born and raised in Israel, Yael Reuveny started studying in the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem in 2000. Since her graduation in 2005 she has been living and working in Germany.
In 2009 Yael completed TALES OF THE DEFEATED, a 30 min. documentary that had its international premiere at Visions du reel, Nyon and won several awards, among them the first prize in the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Discovery award and DEFA Award at Cottbus Film Festival.
Her first full-length documentary FAREWELL, HERR SCHWARZ / “Schnee Von Gestern”(Trailer DE), premiered in late 2013 and has since won several prizes, among them the award for outstanding German documentary in DokLeipzig and the Best documentary award in Haifa International Film Festival. FAREWELL, HERR SCHWARZ was nominated for the Ofir – the Israeli Academy award and won the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Award. It was cinematically released in Israel in December 2013, in Germany in April 2014 in the United States in January 2015 and was very well received both by the critics and by the public.
Film maker and artist / Cineasta y artista
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Born and raised in Israel, Yael Reuveny started studying in the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem in 2000. Since her graduation in 2005 she has been living and working in Germany.
In 2009 Yael completed TALES OF THE DEFEATED, a 30 min. documentary that had its international premiere at Visions du reel, Nyon and won several awards, among them the first prize in the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Discovery award and DEFA Award at Cottbus Film Festival.
Her first full-length documentary FAREWELL, HERR SCHWARZ / “Schnee Von Gestern”(Trailer DE), premiered in late 2013 and has since won several prizes, among them the award for outstanding German documentary in DokLeipzig and the Best documentary award in Haifa International Film Festival. FAREWELL, HERR SCHWARZ was nominated for the Ofir – the Israeli Academy award and won the Israeli Documentary Filmmakers Award. It was cinematically released in Israel in December 2013, in Germany in April 2014 in the United States in January 2015 and was very well received both by the critics and by the public.
In parallel to her work as a documentarian, Yael is also the creator of museum video installations, among them TUNICATA (2017, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin) and MESUBIN (2019, a 21 screen installation, Jewish Museum Berlin, permanent exhibition)
Yael’s latest documentary film ONE OF US / Kinder der Hoffnung (Trailer DE) was released in 2021.