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Thirst Street premiered in 2017 in US Narrative competition at the Tribeca Film Festival and Venice Days at the Venice Film Festival.

This film was shot in New York on a shoe-string budget. Once finished, it quickly became a festival hit (Rotterdam; São Paulo; Jerusalem; Durban; CPH:PIX) after premiering at South By South West (SXSW) in 2013. Swim Little Fish Swim enjoyed a worldwide theatrical release and extensive media coverage in France and in the US and it has recently been sold to HBO Europe, Netflix, RTBF and OCS among other international networks.

Checkpoint, one of his last short film has premiered at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2011 where it won the Youth Critic Award. The film tells the story of Suleiman, a young Palestinian boy living in the Gaza Strip who accompanies his father on monthly visits to the ruins of a destroyed village. Though Suleiman doesn't understand his father's ritual, he feels he has a duty to help him.

Between 2007 and 2011, he directed several short films, shot in Paris, London, New York and on the Israeli-Palestinian border. These films appeared in more than 300 international festivals including Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam and South by Southwest (SXSW).

Ruben Amar (born in 1974) is a French multi-award movie 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.