The Klezmer Project

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The Klezmer Project

Released Feb 25

1h 57m

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Music

Adventure

Drama

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A Jewish wedding cameraman falls in love with a klezmer clarinetist and pretends to be making a documentary in order to spend time with her. His fake project leads to a real journey through Eastern Europe in search of lost klezmer melodies and the remnants of Yiddish culture. A documentary-fiction hybrid. Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

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Seth Katz

Slant Magazine

As with a traditional documentary, The Klezmer Project is affected by forces outside the filmmakers’ control.

Rated: 2.5/4

Feb 26, 2025

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Morris Yang

In Review Online

The Klezmer Project meticulously subverts its structural expectations in service of a hybridized docu-fiction register, working best both as ethnomusicology and as meditation on its intrinsically whimsical and rewarding process.

Feb 28, 2025

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Nora Lee Mandel

Maven's Nest

Argentinian debut directors Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann set off on an unconventional and amusing search for their Ashkenazi Jewish identity through fictional and documentary traces of klezmer music, Yiddish language, and their relationship.

Rated: 7/10

Feb 9, 2024

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

The Klezmer Project gifts us an internal and external journey in search of the roots of a lost paradise. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 28, 2023

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Hector A. Gonzalez

InSession Film

Koch and crew manage to mostly pull it off, taking the viewer on a journey filled with scrutiny and intrigue on a topic most of us know little to nothing about.

Rated: B

Jul 19, 2023

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Sarah Manvel

Critic's Notebook

Not a total success, but it’s so interesting it doesn’t matter.

Mar 9, 2023

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Nugraha A

Such a good film for family time

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/06/25

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Djulian R

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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/05/25

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Airin N

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/28/25

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Adidaya B

A good movie for good moment

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/28/25

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Boi G

Good luck for the first to

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/27/25

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Nur E

The Klezmer Project is a good story. I really like it, especially the player Leandro Koch

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/27/25

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A Jewish wedding cameraman falls in love with a klezmer clarinetist and pretends to be making a documentary in order to spend time with her. His fake project leads to a real journey through Eastern Europe in search of lost klezmer melodies and the remnants of Yiddish culture. A documentary-fiction hybrid. Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

Director: Leandro Koch, Paloma Schachmann
Producer: Andrew Sala, Lukas Rinner, Sebastián Muro, Leandro Koch, Paloma Schachmann
Screenwriter: Leandro Koch, Paloma Schachmann
Distributor: Greenwich Entertainment
Production Co: Nabis Filmgroup, Nevada Cine
Genre: Documentary, Music, Adventure, Drama
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 25, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 25, 2025
Runtime: 1h 57m

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