Ambush (2025 film)

Ambush
Directed byYassmina Karajah
Screenplay byYassmina Karajah
Produced byRaya Aburub
Aseel Abu Ayyash
Joaquin Cardoner
Yousef Abdel Nabi
StarringEmad Alkobari
Sereen Khass
CinematographyFarhad Ghaderi
Edited byAbdallah Sada
Production
company
Imaginarium Films
Release date
  • September 6, 2025 (2025-09-06) (TIFF)
Running time
21 minutes
CountriesCanada
Jordan
LanguagesArabic
English

Ambush (Kameen) is a Canadian-Jordanian short drama film, directed by Yassmina Karajah and released in 2025.[1] The film tells the initially unrelated, but eventually intersecting, stories of Hasan (Emad Alkobari), a coffee shop clerk in Amman who spends his free time hanging out with friends who don't want to pay the cover charge to get into a new pop-up nightclub, and Jana (Sereen Khass), a woman who has given up drinking but is being pressured by her friends to go to the club.[1]

The film premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.[2]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2025.[3]

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