Palestinian-Jordanian Filmmaker Darin J. Sallam on the Backlash to ‘Farha’: ‘I Never Regretted It’

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Sallam has no regrets about making “Farha,” her debut feature about a Palestinian girl coming of age during the Nakba, the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians surrounding the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The film sparked controversy that Sallam was warned could derail her career before it had properly begun.

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“I never questioned that decision or regretted it for a moment,” Sallam tells Variety from UAE, where she is serving as a member of the narrative features jury at the 13th Sharjah Intl. Festival for Children and Youth.

“Everything that went into bringing the film to life was worth it, and its impact continues to resonate to this day.” Related Stories Lionsgate Stock Jumps on Report Legendary Entertainment Has Submitted New Takeover Offer Lionsgate Promotes Scott Herbst to President of Television Group “Farha” was inspired by the story of a Palestinian refugee, passed down to Sallam through her mother. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2021, was later selected as Jordan’s submission for the international feature Oscar and subsequently streamed globally on Netflix.

Its Netflix release prompted a fierce backlash, particularly over a scene depicting Israeli soldiers killing a Palestinian family. Israeli officials publicly condemned the film, while Sallam and others involved with it faced harassment and online abuse.

Sallam has also been unable to travel to Palestine since the film’s release. The warnings rolled in even before the film was shot.

“I always knew in my heart that choosing ‘Farha’ as my debut feature film would be an experience unlike anything I had encountered before or will encounter in the future,” she says. For Sallam, the film grew out of a broader conviction that history is most powerful when experienced through individual lives.

“Personal stories are often the most powerful way to understand history and society,” she explains. “Behind every historical event, there are individual lives, emotions, struggles and dreams that deserve to be heard.” She is particularly drawn to women’s stories because, she says, so many of their experiences have been “overlooked, silenced or left out of the historical narrative.” In “Farha,” that meant filtering the collective experience of the Nakba through the perspective of one young girl.

Sallam sees personal and collective memory as inseparable, with Farha’s journey distilling an event that transformed thousands of lives into an experience audiences could encounter through a single character. “If cinema is not personal, it risks becoming nothing more than slogans and history lessons,” Sallam argues.

“Cinema needs to emerge from a genuine human experience, from something deeply felt and lived. Only then can it move beyond delivering messages and become something that truly touches people, challenges them a

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