Farha (2021)

Directed by

Darin Sallam

Genre

drama film, historical drama

Country

Jordan

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

R18+

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 87 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Palestinian teenage girl hides alone in a locked pantry as violence erupts outside during the 1948 Nakba. The film follows her struggle to survive and understand the sudden destruction of her world.

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What happens

Farha (Arabic: فرحة, romanized: Farḥa) is a 2021 internationally co-produced historical drama film written and directed by Darin J. Sallam. The film depicts a Palestinian girl's coming-of-age experience during the Nakba, the 1948 displacement of Palestinians from their homeland. Sallam based the screenplay on a true story that she was told as a child about a girl named Radieh. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on 14 September 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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