Coexistence, My Ass!
Comedy about Israel and Palestine is a high-wire act and perhaps never more so than now, which is part of what makes this documentary about Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi so riveting.
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Comedy about Israel and Palestine is a high-wire act and perhaps never more so than now, which is part of what makes this documentary about Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi so riveting. With an Iranian-Jewish mother and an Ashkenazi Romanian father, Noam grew up in Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salam, an intentional community where Arab and Jewish families live together by choice, and where her left-wing parents moved the family in the early 1990s.
A committed activist for equal rights for Palestinians and Jews—as she explains, coexistence can only exist between equals—she studied International Relations at Brandeis before taking a job at the United Nations. When she was invited by Harvard to work on a peace project, she chose to develop her one-woman show, “Coexistence, My Ass!” Shooting on the film began in 2020 and tracks the show’s progress through COVID and Noam’s growing fame, as well as Noam’s own navigation of the attacks on October 7th, their impact on her friends and family, and the subsequent war on Gaza.
Consistent through it all is Noam’s clear-eyed insight—sometimes funny, sometimes deadly serious, sometimes both at the same time. Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression.
- Director: Amber Fares
- Principal Cast: Noam Shuster-Eliassi
- Country: USA, France
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 95 min.
- Producer: Amber Fares, Rachel Leah Jones, Valérie Montmartin
- Screenplay: Amber Fares
- Cinematographers: Amber Fares, Philippe Bellaïche, Amit Chachamov
- Editors: Rabab Hajyahya
- Music: William Ryan Fritch
- Website: Official Film Website
- Awards: Sundance Film Festival 2025 (Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression: World Cinema Documentary), Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2025 (Human Rights in Motion Award), Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2025 (Center for Documentary Studies Filmmaker Award)
- Filmography: Speed Sisters (2015)
- Language: English, Arabic, Hebrew
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- Format: DCP
- International Sales: Autlook Films