“We do believe in the artistic value of the film, and that its message doesn’t harm in any way the Palestinian cause,” the Royal Film Commission says
The Royal Film Commission for Jordan has withdrawn “Amira,” its Oscar submission to the Best International Feature race, in the wake of backlash online that deemed the film offensive to Palestinians. “Amira” is directed and written by Mohamed Diab and is about a Palestinian girl whose world is turned upside down when she learns the man she grew up idolizing is not her real father. The film deals with the issue of sperm smuggled from prisoners in Israeli jails and involves the realization that she was conceived by the sperm of an Israeli prison guard rather than a Palestinian prisoner.
