Coexistence, My Ass!

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Coexistence, My Ass!

Q&A with director Amber Fares

2025. 95 m. Amber Fares. Independent. France/US. English/Hebrew/Arabic with subtitles. Rated NR.

Shot over five tumultuous years, Coexistence, My Ass! follows Israeli activist-comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she creates a brazen and raucous comedy show by the same name. Raised in a bilingual Israeli-Palestinian village—the only intentionally integrated community in the country—Noam grows disillusioned with working as a traditional peace activist. She pivots to stand-up and quickly attracts attention across the Middle East. But as her star rises, everything around her falls apart. With biting satire, Noam pushes her audiences to face difficult truths that aren’t always funny but do remind us that another reality is possible.

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"Urgent, eye-opening and enormously compassionate. Eliassi and Coexistence, My Ass! do the impossible and deliver radical ideas through humor. Rarely has comedy felt this serious and urgent.”
Tomris Laffly, Variety

"Sharp-witted, sympathetic and illuminating, Coexistence, My Ass! successfully runs the gamut from hilarity to heartbreak."
Allan Hunter, Screen Daily

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Q&A with director Amber Fares

Tuesday, Dec. 2 2025, 7:00

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Amber Fares is an award-winning documentary filmmaker best known for her directorial debut Speed Sisters (Hot Docs, 2015), which aired internationally on Netﬂix, Al Jazeera and Rai. Her directing credits include We Are Ayenda (Amazon, 2023), Gutsy ep5 (Apple TV, 2022), Reckoning with Laughters (Al Jazeera’s “Witness,” 2021), Convergence: Courage Under Crisis (Netﬂix, 2021). Amber also served as cinematographer and co-producer of the Peabody Award-winning The Judge (PBS, 2017), was the cinematographer on Life After (Sundance 2025) and both produced and shot the short film The Devil is Busy (HBO 2025). A Sundance Momentum Fellow and Pillars Artist Fellow, Amber is a Canadian based in New York.