His work includes directing and producing, with Nada Riyadh, the feature documentary ‘The Brink of Dreams’, which premiered in Cannes’ Semaine de la Critique and won the L’Œil d’or Prize for Best Documentary Film at the Festival de Cannes 2024. He also produced the fiction ‘Fakh (The Trap)’, screened at Cannes’ Semaine de la Critique and TIFF 2019, and co-directed the feature documentary ‘Happily Ever After’, which premiered at IDFA 2016. El Amir has worked as a script consultant, mentor, and jury member for many programmes, labs, funds, and institutes including Torino Film Lab, Cannes’ La Fabrique, Doha Film Institute, IDFA Bertha Fund, Marrakech Atlas Atelier, Cairo International Film Festival, Full Circle Lab, Hot Docs Documentary Fund, and DW Academy.