Palestinian ministers are reported to have called on the Jordanian authorities to stop the screening and distribution of Diab’s film. Social media campaignĪ social media campaign has also gathered momentum in recent weeks accusing Amira of undermining the Palestinian cause and even pushing for a normalisation of relations with Israel, even though the film at no point paints Israel in a favourable light. There has been growing criticism in recent weeks of the film from Palestinians with family members in Israeli jails, including one vocal protestor who had conceived her child in this way and felt the representation of the phenomenon was insensitive. Her life falls apart when a chance DNA test reveals he is not her biological father, leading to the discovery that the sperm was swapped as it was being transported from the prison to her mother. It revolves around the fictional tale of a teenage girl who believes she was conceived from the sperm of a famous Palestinian activist serving a life term.
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Jordan’s Royal Film Commission has withdrawn Egyptian director Mohamed Diab’s drama Amira as its submission to the 2022 international feature Oscar race f ollowing a local backlash against the film.įilmed in Jordan and set in the Palestinian West Bank, the film was inspired by the true phenomenon of children conceived using the smuggled sperm of Palestinian prisoners imprisoned in Israeli jails.