‘The Klezmer Project’: Watch First Trailer for Jewish Cultural Heritage Berlin Doc Filmed Partly in Ukraine (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran A first trailer has been unveiled for Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann’s documentary “The Klezmer Project,” which will have its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters strand.
The documentary follows Argentinian cameraman Leandro who makes a living from filming Jewish weddings. At one of his jobs, he falls in love with Paloma, the clarinetist of the Klezmer band.
To seduce her he pretends to be shooting a documentary film about traditional Yiddish folk music. What Leandro does not know is that his “fake” film project will take him on an unscripted journey throughout Eastern Europe in search of the last remaining Klezmer melodies.
The filmmakers, who are front and center in the film, are both grandchildren of Jewish immigrants who grew up hearing stories from their grandparents that spoke of a Judaism that was nothing like theone they knew. “At first, it seemed to us that those stories were simply a romanticization of the past.
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