# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yair-qedar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:35:19.978Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yair-qedar"
name: "Yair Qedar"
slug: "yair-qedar"
description: "Yair Qedar is a documentary filmmaker, festival curator and LGBTQ activist. , In his project \"the Hebrews\", he chronicled the lives of Jewish and Israeli figures of the modern Hebrew literary canon. Qedar's 19 feature-length documentaries have all premiered at film festivals and have won the director over 40 prizes. Qedar is a leading LGBTQ activist. He created several queer films and the first Israeli LGBTQ newspaper. In 2026 he created and curated Aleph international festival for Hebrew language and culture."
tagline: "Israeli filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yair_Qedar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Israel"
  isoCode: "IL"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1969-06-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.878690666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3492397/"
    handle:    "nm3492397"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair_Qedar"
    title: "Yair Qedar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "يائير قيدار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "ياير كيدار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair_Qedar"
    title: "Yair Qedar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A8_%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%A8"
    title: "יאיר קדר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair_Qedar"
    title: "Yair Qedar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%2C_%D0%AF%D0%B8%D1%80"
    title: "Кедар, Яир"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yair_Qedar"
    title: "Yair Qedar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2903003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1577452"
    title: "Yair Qedar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump