Darin J Sallam’s ‘Farha’ wins at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Sallam has become the first Jordanian filmmaker to be awarded an Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Sallam has become the first Jordanian filmmaker to be awarded an Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Inspired by true events, the film tells the story of 14-year-old girl Farha in Palestine in 1948, who watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home.
The 14 fiction features and documentaries hail from Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.