External links
- Ruben Amar at IMDb
- Ruben Amar at AlloCiné (French)
- Official Website
Ruben Amar | |
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| Born | 1974 (age 50–51) Montpellier, France |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter and producer |
Ruben Amar (born in 1974 [1] ) is a French screenwriter, director and producer. He is best known for the independent feature film Swim Little Fish Swim and his two last short films Checkpoint and A Girl Like You With a Boy Like Me.
Amar attended business school and worked for startups and television production companies [2] before deciding to pursue cinema and attending filmmaking workshops in London.
Between 2007 and 2011, Amar directed several short films, [3] shot in Paris, London and New York and on the Israeli-Palestinian border. These films appeared in many international festivals including the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and South by Southwest (SXSW). [4] [ unreliable source? ]
Checkpoint, one of his last short films, premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival [5] in 2011 where it won the Youth Critics' Award. [6] The film tells the story of a young Palestinian boy living in the Gaza Strip who accompanies his father on monthly visits to the ruins of a destroyed village. [7] Checkpoint was exhibited worldwide in international film festivals including Slamdance, [8] the Palm Springs International Film Festival, [9] Raindance, [7] and the Festival du cinéma méditerranéen de Montpellier. [10] Checkpoint was broadcast by international TV channels (TPS, BeTV, [11] Canal+ Poland, RTBF [12] ). Reviewers praised the film's story and cinematography. [13] [14]
A year later, following the success of Checkpoint, Ruben Amar started co-writing, co-directing and co-producing with Lola Bessis their first feature film, Swim Little Fish Swim (2013).
Ruben Amar also produced Nathan Silver's feature film, Thirst Street [15] (2017) with his new production company PaperMoon Films.
