Yair Qedar (Hebrew: יאיר קדר, born June 13, 1969) is an Israeli documentary filmmaker, social activist and former journalist.

[4][5] Qedar has won the Allied Prize for World Jewish Press and the European Union Award for Journalistic Reporting in the Mediterranean Basin.

The films are generally cinematic portraits, and are interspersed with archival footage, interviews, sound fragments and contemporary animation.

[7][8] The documentaries have all premiered in film festivals, aired on Israeli TV, and circulated far and wide in cinemas, cinematheques, community and cultural centers, in Israel and around the world[9] (United States and Canada, Europe, Australia and Russia), earning multiple awards.

[10] The documentary documents the emergence of the LGBT community in Israel and is based on his own personal story along with the stories of other prominent gay men and women in Israel (Gal Uchovsky, Eytan Fox, Dana International, Offer Nissim, among others).

[16] It won three prizes at the 2011 Israeli Documentary Film Competition: for editing (for Ayelet Ofarim), soundtrack design (for Aviv Aldama) and original music (for Eli Sorni and Carolina).

The Seven Tapes (2012), about the life of the poet Yona Wallach, was official selected at the 2012 Jerusalem Film Festival.

[34] From 2015 to 2017, Qedar collaborated with actor Ilan Peled, co-directing and producing the mockumentary mini-series Vanished, about the marginalization and discrimination of female artists in Israel.

[citation needed] In addition to his work as a documentary maker, Qedar is a prominent member of the Israeli LGBT community.

He founded the country's first LGBT newspaper HaZman HaVarod (Pink Times),[57] where he served as editor.

[2] Qedar was founding editor of Pink Time, Israel's first gay, lesbian and transgender newspaper,[59] writes in various publications, such as Haaretz, Yedioth Ahronoth, Masa Acher, and is recipient of various journalistic prizes, including winner of the B'nai B'rith World Center Award for Journalism in 2003, and Euromed Heritage Journalistic Award in 2005 and 2006.

He attended Tel Aviv University in the 1990s,[85] graduating with a bachelor's and master's degree in Hebrew literature.

In 2017 he married Gidon Yona in a civil marriage in Denmark, which was later recognized by the Israeli Ministry of the Interior.