At the beginning of the Jordanian film "Farha", the heroine and her friend are sitting on improvised swings in a green forest in Palestine in 1948.
Farha spends her days in the pastoral village on the side of the mountain, dreams of studying in the city school and spends her time reading books near a waterfall.
Paradise Lost.
With the end of the mandate, when a convoy of British soldiers passes by, Farha and her friend get up and run towards it to shout angrily: "Out! Out!".
Deep into the climax of the plot in the movie "Parha", the Israeli soldiers appear.
Through the slits in the stone structure where Farha is hiding, they brutally slaughter women and children in the middle of the street.
Shooting from zero range.
Earlier, they conduct a humiliating search on one of the women and take care to humiliate one of the village people.
Later, a baby who survived the shooting was abandoned by them on the ground until he died.
The Jordanian director of the film, Darin Salam, claims to teach about what really happened at that time.
At the end of the week she even lamented the "Israeli media attack".
But according to her own testimony, the story is based on a girl named Redia, who fled to Syria more than 70 years ago.
According to her, Redia met her mother when she was little and told her what she had been through.
In her adulthood, the mother told a second version, which in turn underwent several changes by the director during the writing of the script.
The space for "creative freedom" here is endless.
When it is difficult to justify the ISIS terrorism of the Palestinians in the present, they go back to the past to draw a false moral equation.
And yet, the outrage that Netflix provoked after the decision to upload the film to its platforms abroad is somewhat reminiscent of Farha's calls to the British convoy. A kind of cry of sorrow for the world while the fate of the battle was already sealed. The Jordanian film was filmed in 2019 and was released a year ago. Its creators have already won international awards and presented it at festivals around the world from Canada to Saudi Arabia. Jordan even submitted it as its candidate for the Academy Awards ceremony. Only now, after it arrives on the Netflix stage and there is an intention to screen it in the Jaffa Theater, the ministers in Israel have woken up.
caused a stir.
Netflix, photo: AFP
What is the reason for this?
Perhaps in Jerusalem they are already so used to incitement in the world of Arab cinema, that it provokes nothing but a shrug of the shoulders.
Just three years ago, a media storm arose in Israel following the Egyptian film "The Crossing", which shows Israeli soldiers killing Egyptian soldiers for pleasure.
Since then quite a few films in the genre have been released.
It so happens that another hostile Jordanian film no longer moves anyone.
The representatives of the state continued to sign the documents of understanding in festive meetings for projects that save Jordan from the danger of dehydration.
All this while a Jordanian director travels around the world portraying them as baby killers.
And King Abdullah?
He can express concern about the entry of this or that politician into the government.
I wonder what he would say if an Israeli film showed Jordanian soldiers murdering Palestinians during the events of Black September.
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