Ramallah / Awad Rajoub / Anatolia
The Palestinian Ministry of Culture considered, on Saturday, that the scenes contained in the movie “Huda Salon” “affect the image of the Palestinian people,” stressing that it had previously refused to show it, in the name of her country.
And “Huda Salon”, a film directed by the Palestinian Hani Abu Asaad, which was shown at the 2022 Beirut International Film Festival for Women, which opened on Sunday and concluded on Friday, and then was published on the communication networks, which sparked widespread Palestinian and Arab anger because it contained “obscene scenes.”
Its events revolve around a woman named Huda who has a relationship with the Israeli intelligence, working through a beauty salon to bring down Palestinian girls, after drugging and photographing them in obscene situations, and then blackmailing them to work against their country.
The Ministry of Culture said, in a statement that Anatolia received a copy of it: “It is certain that the scenes contained in the film affect the image of our people, contradict their values and morals, and affect the image of Palestinian cinema.”
She pointed out that a committee she had previously set up “rejected the film, and did not allow it to represent the State of Palestine in the international Oscar competition.”
The ministry explained that the film’s team presented at the time (August 2021) a copy “free of immoral scenes for the committee (..), but the committee pointed out a weakness in the film’s structure and its inability to present the image of the resistance, the clients and the relationship with the occupation, which was characterized by the treatment of this superficial and weak issues.
After its screening, Palestinian institutions, including the Association of Palestinian Artists (non-governmental) and the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Writers, denounced the film and demanded the competent legal authorities to stop its publication and prevent it from showing permanently, and to hold all those working in its production, directing, and representation in it and legally accountable.
It is noteworthy that the director Abu Asaad, one of the co-producers of the movie “Princess”, which sparked widespread anger in December 2021, for dealing with the issue of sperm smuggling from Palestinian prisoners, in a way that harmed the prisoners and their families, prompting its producers and some countries to stop showing it.
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