Born and raised in Israel, Yael Reuveny graduated from the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem in 2005. Since then, she has been living and working between Germany and Israel.

Her award-winning films include Tales of the Defeated (2009), Farewell, Herr Schwarz (2013) and Promised Lands (2021).

Alongside her work as a documentarian, Yael creates video and sound installations for museums, among them Tunicata (2017) for the Martin Gropius Bau Berlin; Mesubin (2020) and Neuland (2023) for the Jewish Museum Berlin; and the sound installation Wolf, the Kids and the Forgotten Garden (2025) at the House of the Wannsee Conference.

During the 2023–2024 academic year, she served as a guest professor at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF.