Anti-war film: Farha

Youth Center CK13 invites you to the screening of the film "Farha" (Darin J. Sallam, 2021) as part of the Anti-war Film Cycle on Thursday, August 7 at 8:30 PM.

Admission is free.

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About the Film by Director Darin J. Sallam

"It is a story about a fifteen-year-old girl who lives in a Palestinian village, set in the period before 1948, before the Nakba. When the Israelis attacked the village, her father, fearing that she might be raped, as he had heard of such incidents during Israeli attacks on other villages, locked her in a room, told her to be quiet, and promised to return. However, he did not return, and when Farha realized this, she fled on foot to Syria. There she met a girl to whom she confided and told what had actually happened to her. After getting married, that girl had a daughter to whom she told the sad fate of her friend, and that daughter is actually me.

Farha is just a drop in the sea of sorrow that struck the Palestinians in 1948. Unfortunately, the number of destroyed lives has increased, and to this day, the joy has been taken away from millions of children in Gaza. My ultimate goal is for the world to see Palestinians as human beings, not numbers."

About the Nakba

Nakba (Arabic: النكبة — "catastrophe, disaster, apocalypse") refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine during the Palestinian war in the time of the British mandate over the territory of Palestine. Ethnic cleansing involved the displacement of Palestinians, confiscation of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society, suppression of culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. Approximately half of the predominantly Arab population of Palestine, about 750,000 people, were expelled from their homes or forced to flee by various violent means, first by Zionist paramilitary formations, and after the establishment of the state of Israel, by its army. Dozens of massacres of Palestinian Arabs were carried out, and over 500 towns, villages, and urban settlements with an Arab majority were abandoned. Many settlements were either completely destroyed or resettled by Jews and given new Hebrew names. By the end of the war, 78% of the total area of the former mandate of Palestine was under the control of the state of Israel.

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Anti-war Film Cycle

Youth Center CK13 organizes this cycle to inform and educate about war events and the brutal violation of human rights worldwide using film as a powerful medium and advocacy tool. The film invites us to experience and understand it as if it were about us. It will bring us closer to the unimaginable and the most distant. Thanks to the power of film to bring us closer to the unimaginable in war, despite temporal and spatial distance, to confront us with the reality of war and our responsibility not to succumb to war, we will more easily confront our own war-torn past and the legacy of war crimes.