The Jordanian film "Farha," by director Darin J. Sallam, was made available Dec. 1 on Netflix, and has already caused an uproar in Israel for a scene in which Israeli soldiers are depicted murdering a Palestinian family during the 1948 war. The scene has led to a social media protest in which many Israelis have called for a boycott of the streaming giant and attacked its decision to broadcast the film on its platform. Many have expressed their protest by canceling their Netflix subscriptions. 

Among the leaders of the protest is actress and model Nataly Dadon, who posted on her Instagram account, which has 800,000 followers, “The reason for canceling my subscription: values come before entertainment. Netflix adds a movie called 'Farha' whose sole aim is to increase antisemitism. It’s not the only anti-Israel show that gets a platform on Netflix. There’s something very cynical and hurtful when there’s a movie featured whose goal is to present us as a cruel and merciless people.” 

"Farha," which was chosen in September to represent Jordan at the 95th Academy Awards to compete in the Best International Feature Film category, reached movie screens in 2021 and has been shown at several film festivals around the world, including the Toronto Film Festival and the Red Sea Film Festival. It tells the story of the Nakba through the story of a 14-year-old Palestinian girl named Farha, from one of the Palestinian villages, whose father locks her in the storage unit in order to protect her from soldiers on their way to the village. Through the cracks in the door, Farha witnesses the horrors of war. The movie’s trailer says that it is based on true stories. 

Sallam said in an interview with the Emirati Al Khaleej news site, “The movie presents the Nakba differently. Because it is human, emotional and poetic when it dives into the story of one person in order to tell the stories of human pain, stolen dreams, a childhood that ends too soon and a state of oppression that has taken place in every place and time.”