Amber Fares is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose latest feature, Coexistence, My Ass!, won the Special Grand Jury Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. She is also the director of the Cannes Lion Grand Prix–winning branded short We Are Ayenda (Amazon, 2023) and the Netflix debut Speed Sisters (2015). Her other directing credits include Gutsy Ep. 5 (Apple TV, 2022), Reckoning with Laughter (Al Jazeera’s Witness, 2021), and Convergence: Courage Under Crisis (Netflix, 2021). As a cinematographer and co-producer, Amber worked on The Devil Is Busy (HBO, 2025), Life After (Sundance 2025), Just Vision’s Boycott (2021), and the Peabody Award–winning The Judge (PBS, 2017). A Sundance Momentum and Pillars Artist Fellow, she is Canadian and currently based in New York.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Cinematographer, director and producer
- 9 on MovieCove · 11 credits in all
What are Amber Fares' films like?
Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Power.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 7
A split, not a type: Light 1 · Serious 2 · Dark 4
Grounded 7 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 1 · Charged 6 · Intense 0
A split, not a type: Steady 5 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 6 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 1
Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 0
Casual 1 · Engaged 6 · Full focus 0
A split, not a type: Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 4
A split, not a type: Resolved 4 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet4
- Ambiguous4
- Cyclical1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Amber Fares' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 4 of their 9 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Amber Fares' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
11 credits, 9 with a MovieCove page.
Coexistence, My Ass!(2025)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
Life After(2025)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
The Devil Is Busy(2024)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
We Are Ayenda (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Gutsy(2022)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all shows
Boycott(2021)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
And She Could Be Next (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
America Inside Out(2018)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
The Judge(2017)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Speed Sisters(2015)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Career shape
A full career of 9 titles from 2015 to 2026.
Biggest box office
Coexistence, My Ass! (2025)
Highest rated
Coexistence, My Ass! (2025)
Most popular right now
Gutsy (2022)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
1 major award from 2 major nominations, 2025.
- Sundance award, won · Freedom of Expression
- Sundance award, nominated · World Cinema - Documentary
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Amber Fares' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 83rd percentile, the median of all 7; across their 7 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 87th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up6
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th1
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 9 titles are Divisive.
- Divisive3
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed3
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Amber Fares work with?
People who share at least 2 of Amber Fares' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Rabab Haj Yahya shares the most, 2.
Editors
- Rabab Haj YahyaShared titles: Coexistence, My Ass! (2025), Speed Sisters (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Rabab Haj Yahya
Producers
- Daniel J. ChalfenShared titles: Life After (2025), Boycott (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Daniel J. Chalfen
- Jess DevaneyShared titles: Life After (2025), Speed Sisters (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Jess Devaney
