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DocAviv Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival (2010)
In this clever and heartfelt mockumentary, a renowned Yiddish actor disappears under criminal circumstances. Left in his wake are debts, rumors and a mysterious inscription on the door of his home reading “schund.” The film’s action takes place twenty-five years after the actor’s disappearance in an effort to pick up his trail. Along the way, we meet the colorful characters that made up Israel’s vibrant Yiddish scene during the country’s first decades, when Yiddish theater thrived even as it drew ire from an Israeli establishment hell-bent on suppressing this popular threat to the primacy of Hebrew culture.
In 2008, Yael Leibovitz Zand co-directed, with Ido Zand, the documentary Good Shabbes Vietnam which was broadcast on Israel and German TV. She has edited programs and documentaries for documentaries for Israel’s channel 10, 2 and 1 in and for the Israeli National Geographic Channel. She is a graduate of Tel Aviv University’s film school.
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