With long-time collaborator Kathleen Tagg, Krakauer co-composed and produced the musical score for the feature film Minyan by Eric Steel,(nominated for best film at 2020 Berlin Film Festival & Winner of Grand Jury Prize for Best U.S. Narrative Feature at OUTFEST 2020). Minyan is a beautiful coming of age story of an immigrant family in New York. A young Jewish man is caught between thrilling private trysts and his repressive family in this thoughtful drama set in 1980s Brooklyn.

In 2020 David additionally composed and produced the klezmer-based score for the animated film Haftorahs by film maker Jeremy Kagan. Haftorahs is an animated movie is based on a series of drawings that are a response to each of the Haftorah portions read chronologically throughout the year.

MINYAN : FULL-LENGTH FEATURE FILM (2020)

Hollywood Reporter: 'Minyan': Film Review | Berlin 2020 Feb 22, 2020 by David Rooney
”He also benefits from strong collaborations with composers David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg, whose score brings rich cultural specificity, and with accomplished cinematographer Ole Bratt Birkeland (Judy), who shoots the film in wintry tones that in retrospect feel almost like black and white.”

Indiewire: Minyan’ Review: A Brighton Beach Boy Finds His Tribe in Elegant Gay Drama Feb 24, 2020 by Jude Dry
"It’s just across the street, but may as well be a world away. At least, that’s what the zany klezmer score Steel uses to weave his disparate narratives together seems to be saying. Almost every transition is eased by the kelp of a dizzying clarinet solo or lilting violin riff. It’s a neat trick, but it works."

Movable Fest: Berlin Film Fest 2020: A Community Makes a Man in “Minyan” Feb 22, 2020 by Stephen Saito
“One knows from McCann’s restless turn and the competing clarinets in David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg’s wonderfully docile score that David has yet to reconcile who he is internally, making his unease in any number of worlds that he’s naturally been assigned a place in particularly pronounced.”

Indiewire: 15 Must-See Films at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival  Feb 19, 2020 by David Ehrlich, Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, Kate Erbland, Jude Dry
”There are a lot of moving parts in “Minyan,” glued together by a hauntingly frenetic klezmer score, but it ensures the film never courts cliche.”

Screen Daily: ‘Minyan’: Berlin Review 23 Feb 2020 by Wendy Ide
”Gentle rhythms and motifs are woven into the narrative: the covert draining and refilling of the ‘best’ vodka; the inspiring literature class; the score, klezmer infused jazz which anchors David’s story to the traditions of his family.”

The Arts STL: NewFest 2020 | Report 6 October 22, 2020 By Sarah Boslaugh
”Minyan is a leisurely film, running almost two hours, but it’s never boring thanks to the strength of the performances, the cinematography by Ole Bratt Birkeland, and especially the klezmer-inflected score by David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg.”

David & Kathleen talk to film maker Eric Steel as part of their 2020 Sunday Connections series from home. Includes music and clips from the film MINYAN