Country: USA, France
Year: 2025
Duration: 95'
The film follows Israeli activist-comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she creates a comedy show by the same name. Shot over five tumultuous years, the film traces Noam’s personal, professional and political journey in tandem with the region’s steady deterioration. Raised in a bilingual Israeli-Palestinian village – the only intentionally integrated community in the country – Noam grows disillusioned with traditional peace activism. 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.
Biography
film director
Amber Fares
(Grand Prairie, Canada) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker best known for her directorial debut Speed Sisters (2015), which aired internationally on Netflix, Al Jazeera and Rai. Her directing credits include We Are Ayenda (Amazon, 2023), Gutsy (Apple TV, 2022), Reckoning with Laughter: Noam Shuster Returns to Israel (2021), and Convergence: Courage Under Crisis (Netflix, 2021). She also served as cinematographer and co-producer of the Peabody Award-winning The Judge (2017), was the cinematographer on Life After (2025), and both produced and shot the short film The Devil Is Busy (HBO, 2025).
FILMOGRAFIA
Ghetto Town (cm, 2009), Speed Sisters (doc, Sorelle da corsa, 2015), Reckoning with Laughter: Noam Shuster Returns to Israel (doc, 2021), Convergence: Courage Under Crisis (Convergence – Il coraggio nella crisi, doc, 2021), Gutsy (Gutsy – Storie di coraggio, 1 ep, serie tv, 2022), We Are Ayenda (cm, 2023), Coexistence, My Ass! (doc, 2025).
Declaration
film director
“Noam has unique qualities that I have seen in very few people. She has the ability to move seamlessly between groups that appear to be mutually exclusive. She is able to hold multiple perspectives on reality, refuses us-or-them narratives and doesn’t lose sight of what’s most important. She speaks truth to power in three different languages. And she is really funny.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Amber Fares. SCREENPLAY: Rachel Leah Jones, Rabab Haj Yahya. CINEMATOGRAPHY Philippe Bellaïche, Amber Fares, Amit Chachamov. FILM EDITING: Rabab Haj Yahya. MUSIC: William Ryan Fritch. SOUND: Rachel Leah Jones, Ibrahim Zaher, Sharon Louzon. PRODUCTION: Amber Fares, Rachel Leah Jones.
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