AMBER FARES / CO-EXISTENCE MY ASS
Amber Fares is a Canadian-Lebanese filmmaker known for her work on documentaries that explore social justice issues in the Middle East. She directed Speed Sisters (2015), a film about the first all-women race car driving team in the Middle East, and co-directed Convergence: Courage in a Crisis (2021), which premiered on Netflix. Her 2023 short documentary We Are Ayenda won the Best Director award at the Sundance Brand Storytelling conference and the Grand Prix for Entertainment at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. In 2025, she directed Coexistence, My Ass!, which received critical acclaim and several awards.
Photography: Aris Rammos
Amber Fares is a Canadian-Lebanese filmmaker known for her work on documentaries that explore social justice issues in the Middle East. She directed Speed Sisters (2015), a film about the first all-women race car driving team in the Middle East, and co-directed Convergence: Courage in a Crisis (2021), which premiered on Netflix. Her 2023 short documentary We Are Ayenda won the Best Director award at the Sundance Brand Storytelling conference and the Grand Prix for Entertainment at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. In 2025, she directed Coexistence, My Ass!, which received critical acclaim and several awards.
Photography: Aris Rammos
Amber Fares is a Canadian-Lebanese filmmaker known for her work on documentaries that explore social justice issues in the Middle East. She directed Speed Sisters (2015), a film about the first all-women race car driving team in the Middle East, and co-directed Convergence: Courage in a Crisis (2021), which premiered on Netflix. Her 2023 short documentary We Are Ayenda won the Best Director award at the Sundance Brand Storytelling conference and the Grand Prix for Entertainment at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. In 2025, she directed Coexistence, My Ass!, which received critical acclaim and several awards.
Photography: Aris Rammos