Farha (Arabic: فرحة, romanized: Farḥa) is a 2021 internationally co-produced historical drama film written and directed by Darin J.

Sallam based the screenplay on a true story that she was told as a child about a girl named Radieh.

One night in 1948, a group of local militias visit Abu Farha, who is the village chief and mayor, requesting that he join their fight against the Nakba.

For days, while awaiting news from her father, she continues to hear sounds of warfare and is only able to peer through a hole facing the courtyard.

The family, except the newborn baby, are executed at gunpoint, causing a moral crisis for the informant, who was promised that women and children would not be hurt in exchange for his collaboration.

The soldier cannot bring himself to stomp on him and covers the infant in a towel, leaving him to die on the courtyard floor.

Farha (whose real name is Raddiyah) never found her father, whose fate remained unknown but was probably killed during the Nakba.

[10] The film is based on a true story recounted to Sallam's mother by a friend, living as a refugee in Syria, about her experience during the Nakba in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homeland.

[5][16] Israel's finance minister Avigdor Lieberman criticised Netflix for streaming the production and ordered the treasury to revoke state funding to Al Saraya Theater, which scheduled screenings of the film,[17] with the "goal of preventing the screening of this shocking film or other similar ones in the future".

[10] In the days following its release, Farha became the target of a coordinated downvoting campaign on IMDb,[10][19] while the filmmakers were subjected to harassment on social media.

[10] Sallam responded to the criticism in an interview with Time magazine, noting that she had been subjected to "hateful, racist messages":[20] The reason I'm so shocked by the backlash is because I didn't show anything.

It's very offensive to deny a tragedy that my grandparents and my father went through and witnessed, and to make fun of it in the attacks that I'm receiving.The New York Times reviewer Beatrice Loayza described the film as "a brutal kind of coming-of-age story" and that while it "primarily unfolds in a tiny storage room, [the film] speaks volumes".

[21] CNN said that the film offers "a perspective on the events that led to Israel's founding that is rarely seen or heard on a global mainstream platform".

[22] In a review for The Hindu, Pallavi Keswani praised Farha for "succinctly put[ting] forth its messaging, conveying the brutality of violence through a barebones narrative".