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A Jordanian movie ‘Farha’ which had faced severe backlash from Israel over its release on Netflix, has been released.
A Jordanian movie ‘Farha’ portraying the ethnic cleansing of Palestine during the 1948 Nakba, when Zionist forces declared the creation of the State of Israel, has begun airing on Netflix despite attacks from Israeli politicians.
Directed by the Jordanian filmmaker Darin J Sallam, Farha is a rare portrayal on a Western entertainment platform of the events of the Nakba, when Zionist military forces expelled at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands and captured 78 percent of historic Palestine.
Netflix has stuck by its decision to carry the movie on its streaming platform, where it became available to view on Thursday. That is despite an Israeli campaign to stop it from appearing on Netflix, with Avigdor Lieberman, a right-winger who is the outgoing Israeli finance minister, suggesting that state funding should be withdrawn from a theatre in Jaffa that plans to show the movie.
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Despite that, Israel’s culture minister, Chili Tropper, said Farha showed ‘lies and libels’, and the plans by Al-Saraya, the Jaffa theatre that plans to screen it, ‘a disgrace’. The minister added, “I call on the theatre’s management to change their decision to screen the film.”
“The movie’s writer/director, Darin J. Sallam, had an urge to tellt his humane and personal story that she carried with her since her childhood and to share it with the world,” the statement said. Netflix picked up Farha after it featured in the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.
