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Amber Fares
US FR 2025 95'
⚬ Current Affairs & Politics
Noam Shuster Eliassi grew up the literal poster child for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before making a hard pivot to stand-up comedy and political satire. But as the region sinks deeper into devastating violence, she must meet the moment by challenging her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.
"Urgent, eye-opening and enormously compassionate… Rarely has comedy felt this serious and urgent” - Variety
"Sharp-witted, sympathetic, and illuminating… Successfully runs the gamut from hilarity to heartbreak" - Screen Daily
"Essential… Just what the doctor ordered" - POV Magazine
Director | Amber Fares |
Producers | Rachel Leah Jones, Amber Fares |
Co-Producers | Valérie Montmartin |
Executive Producers | Ina Fichman, Libby Lenkinski, Alison Klayman, Joe Plummer, Jenifer Westphal |
Production Company | My Teez Productions, Home Made Dos |
Co-Production Company | Little Big Story |
Cinematography | Amber Fares, Philippe Bellaïche, Amit Chachamov |
Editor | Rabab Hajyahya |
Sound | Rachel Leah Jones, Ibrahim Zaher, Sharon Louzon |
Composer | William Ryan Fritch |
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression | Sundance 2025 |
International Competition Golden Alexander | Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2025 |
Human Rights in Motion Award | Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2025 |
Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award | Full Frame 2025 |
Lower Silesia Grand Prix | Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2025 |
Sundance 2025 |
Thessaloniki Doc Fest 2025 |
CPH:DOX 2025 |
Visions du Réel 2025 |
DOXA 2025 |
Hot Docs 2025 |
Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF 2025 |
| Runtime | 95' |
| Spoken Languages | English, Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi |
| Production Countries | USA, France |
Award-winning filmmaker Amber Fares directed Speed Sisters, Reckoning With Laughter, and We Are Ayenda, which won the 2024 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity Grand Prix for Entertainment. She co-directed Convergence: Courage Under Crisis. Fares is a Canadian of Lebanese origin based in New York.
