Coexistence, My Ass!

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Director Amber Fares
Country United States, France
Runtime 94
Year 2025
Language English, Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi
Premiere International Premiere

Synopsis

Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi creates a personal and political one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel/Palestine. When the elusive coexistence she’s spent her life working toward starts sounding like a bad joke, she challenges her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter. With a narrative backbone of Noam Shuster Eliassi’s brilliant stand-up set developed at Harvard University and filmed before a live audience, the film documents not only the shifting perspective of Eliassi – a UN diplomat turned comedian – but also the unfolding realities in the region and the resulting seismically dynamic discourse surrounding it. Audiences will come away with a laugh, a tear, and an openness that feels all together like both a salve and a kick in the ass.

Screenings

20:00

Olympion

Friday 14.3.
QA
16:00

Frida Liappa

Saturday 15.3.
QA

Cast and crew

Producer Amber Fares, Rachel Leah Jones
Writer Rachel Leah Jones, Rabab Haj Yahya
Cinematographer Philippe Bellaïche, Amber Fares, Amit Chachamov
Editor Rabab Haj Yahya
Music William Ryan Fritch
Sound Rachel Leah Jones, Ibrahim Zaher, Sharon Louzon
Production My Teez Production, Home Made Docs, Little Big Story & Intuitive Pictures
Co-producer Valérie Montmartin
Awards World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award– Sundance 2025
Executive producer Jenifer Westphal, Joe Plummer, Ina Fichman, Libby Lenkinski, Alison Klayman
World Sales Autlook Filmsales

Thessaloniki Pitching Forum 2023 

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Amber Fares



2015 Speed Sisters
2017 The Judge
2021 Convergence: Courage Under Crisis
2025 Coexistence, My Ass!

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