Madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club (Hebrew: המועדון לספרות יפה של הגברת ינקלובה, tr.

HaMo'adon LeSifrut Yaffa Shel HaGveret Yankelova) is a 90-minute 2017 Israeli Hebrew-language independent dramatic art film directed by Guilhad Emilio Schenker, at his directorial debut.

The film, which premiered on 6 September 2017 as part of Israeli Cinema Day [he][1] (general release followed on 7 June 2018),[2] was screened at the 2017 Haifa International Film Festival,[3] at the 2017 Jüdisches Filmfestival Wien [de], at Sderot Cinematheque's 2017 Cinema South International Film Festival [he],[4] at Fantastic Fest on 22 September 2018,[5] at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con,[6] and at the 2018 Montreal World Film Festival (where it was nominated for the Golden Zenith),[7] and was released on DVD on 4 March 2019,[8] has been in development since 2013,[9] was financed by RGE Media Group [he]'s Channel 10, B Communications's Bezeq's Yes's Yes Israeli Cinema [he], Mifal HaPayis's, Ministry of Culture and Sport's Israel Film Council's, and Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality's Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts, Tel Aviv [he], the Ministry of Culture and Sport's Israel Film Council, Mifal HaPayis's Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts [he], and the Israel Film Fund [he], was produced by Marek Rozenbaum [he; pl], was scored by Tal Yardeni [he] (with the music being performed by the Ra'anana Symphonette [he], conducted by Rafi Kadishzon [he]), and has won the Ophr Award for Best Makeup [he] and the Ophir Award for Best Costume Design [he] at the 2017 [he] Ophir Awards (where it was also nominated for the Ophir Award for Best Supporting Actress [he], the Ophir Award for Best Sound [he], the Ophir Award for Best Art Direction [he], and the Ophir Award for Best Cinematography [he]).

[10] It follows Sophie Kafry (Keren Mor),[11] a librarian and member of a women-only bookclub founded by Madam Yankelova (Lea Koenig) and managed by Razia Harari (Razia Israeli [he]),[12] which meets once a week inside a Gothic castle to discuss works such as Shmuel Yosef Agnon's 1943 short story The Lady and the Peddler [he] and Elfriede Jelinek's 1983 novel The Piano Teacher.

Sophie turns to a pawnbroker (Tuvia Tzafir) in order to mobilize funds so as to finance her escaping abroad plans, while Joseph, who by then is revealed to be an undercover policeman, finds suspicious photographs in Sophie's apartment and asks the police archivist (Alex Ansky [he]) for information.