Date: Monday, July 14, 2025
Time: 7:00pm ET
Venue: IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave, NYC
TRT: 95 minutes
Director: Amber Fares
NYC PREMIERE! Disillusioned with politics, charismatic and engaging Noam Shuster Eliassi pivots to the world of stand-up comedy as a means of communicating her “radical” message that Palestinian and Israelis deserve the same equal human rights. Amber Fares’ fascinating film, alternating between hilarity and bone-shaking gravity, intersperses clips from Noam’s very funny stage performances with observational scenes of Noam interacting with her parents and her Palestinian best friend from the small experimental co-habitation community where they grew up on the border of the West Bank. Additionally, Noam contends with the media at large and her social media following, who are often frustratingly extreme in their attempts to pigeonhole her.
Noam attracts the attention of Harvard, who funds the development of a performance project that she sassily calls, “”Co-Existence, My Ass!”” – a title that started as a lark, but grows to feel like a bitter pill. Through it all, Noam tries to hang on to her sanity and keep the thread of her life’s work alive.
The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with filmmaker Amber Fares and protagonist Noam Shuster Eliassi.
See more and save! A Series Season Pass, good for all five Summer 2025 screenings in the DOC NYC Selects series, is available for $70 ($50 for IFC Center members).