AMBUSH

AMBUSH

كمين | Kameen

Directed by Yassmina Karajah
Jordan, Canada | 21 min | 2025 | Arabic, English

A pop-up techno club ambushes the streets of downtown Amman flooding a conservative neighborhood with heavy bass and unfamiliar faces. Jana arrives, newly sober, wrestling with intimacy. While across the street, Hasan watches from his family rooftop, anticipating a long-overdue encounter. The film is an urban portrait of bodies and their fleeting pre-dawn desires.

Credits:

Director: Yassmina Karajah
Screenplay: Yassmina Karajah
Cinematographer: Farhad Ghaderi
Sound Design: Janis Ahnertt
Editor: Abdallah Sada
Producers: Joaquin Cardoner, Rula Nasser (The Imaginarium Films)

Cast: Sereene Khass, Emad Al Kobari, Joana Arida, Mohammad Jayousi

  • Yassmina Karajah
    Yassmina Karajah
    Jordan

Festival&Awards:
Toronto International Film Festival – World Premiere

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Yassmina Karajah
Jordan

Yassmina Karajah is a Jordanian-Palestinian screenwriter and director whose work has screened at major international festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival , AFI Fest, Melbourne International Film Festival , and New Directors/New Films at MoMA. Her short film Rupture (2018) was named to TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten, acquired by The Criterion Channel, and awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance, where she became the first recipient of the Russo Brothers Fellowship. Her latest short, Ambush (2025), premiered at TIFF and will compete in the Wide Angle Asian Short Film Competition at the Busan International Film Festival.She holds an LL.B from the University of Bristol, a BFA in Film Production from the University of British Columbia, and is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors’ Lab. She is currently developing her debut feature, set in Amman, Jordan.