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Yael Reuveny was born in Petach Tikva, Israel in 1980. She studied writing, directing and producing for feature films at the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem. After graduating and relocating to Berlin, she made documentary shorts for the Jewish Museum in Berlin and participated in the exhibition "My Name is Esperanza" in Santander, Spain with her video installation "Jerusalem Variations".
Reuveny made "Erzählungen vom Verlorenen" (2008) as her contribution to the inter-cultural documentary project "A Triangle Dialogue". Her film, which depicts the search for her grandmother's brother, who survived the Holocaust but allegedly died shortly after the war, won the Fellowship Award of the DEFA Foundation, the Short Documentary Award of the Jerusalem Film Festival and the Discovery Award of the Cottbus Film Festival.
During her research for "Erzählungen vom Verlorenen", Reuveny learned that her great-uncle actually didn't pass away but changed his name and started a new life in Germany. This discovery became the starting point for her feature-length documentary "Schnee von gestern" ("Farewell, Herr Schwarz"), which went on to win numerous awards, including the Documentary Award at the 2013 Haifa International Film Festival.