Raised as the face of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in a rare mixed Israeli-Palestinian village, Noam Shuster Eliassi transforms her disillusionment with traditional activism into stand-up comedy and political satire. Filmed over the course of five tumultuous years marked by profound changes, the film follows Noam’s personal, artistic, and ideological journey as the world around her falls apart. A remarkable work that offers a unique and necessary look at a complex reality, revealing a little-known perspective.
USA, France, 95 min, 2025
Festival: Sundance Film Festival – Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression, TDF – Golden Alexander, Human Rights in Motion, HotDocs – Top Five Audience Favorite.
Production: My Teez Production, Home Made Docs, Little Big Story, Wavelength, Intuitive Pictures
Country of film: Israel
Director: Amber Fares
Writer: Rachel Leah Jones, Rabab Haj Yahya
Director of Photography: Philippe Bellaïche, Amber Fares, Amit Chachamov
Editor: Rabab Haj Yahya
Sound: Benoit Dame
Music: William Ryan Fritch
Amber Fares is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, best known for her directorial debut Speed Sisters (Hot Docs, 2015), which was later broadcast internationally on Netflix, Al Jazeera, and RAI. Her other directorial works include We are ayenda (Amazon, 2023), Gutsy ep. 5 (Apple TV, 2022), Reckoning with laughter (Al Jazeera “Witness”, 2021) and Convergence: Courage in a Crisis (Netflix, 2021). She also worked as cinematographer and co-producer on the Peabody Award-winning film The judge (PBS, 2017). Amber has also been selected as a Sundance Momentum Fellow and Pillars Artist Fellow.
