Catalogue Impact Days
D’Asmahan Bkerat et Asmahan Bkerat

Concrete Land

Kayan

Les Najars, une famille bédouine palestinienne, sont exilés depuis une trentaine d’années dans la banlieue d’Amman, en Jordanie. Ils vivent en harmonie avec leurs animaux et leur mouton de compagnie, Badrya. Eman, une jeune fille entrant dans l’âge adulte adopte un mode de vie urbain malgré son identité bédouine. Son père, Awad, est chauffeur de camion pour une grande entreprise de ciment, ce qui contribue involontairement aux difficultés auxquelles ils sont confrontés. Quant au grand-père, Abuawad, un berger traditionnel, il parvient à conserver sa vie bédouine malgré l’exil. Ces dernières années, leur quartier s’est transformé en quartier huppé, perturbant la vie et les rêves bédouins des Najar à mesure que les constructions empiètent sur leur territoire. La santé d’Abuawad se dégrade, la perte de ses animaux causée par l’urbanisation lui pèse. En l’absence de politiques gouvernementales pour les protéger, Awad est contraint de déraciner sa famille, de revenir à un mode de vie bédouin rural et de sacrifier l’avenir d’Eman.

Section : Impact Days
Pays : Jordanie
Langue originale : arabe
Réalisation
Asmahan Bkerat
Asmahan Bkerat (Jordanie)
Production
Ban Maraqa
Ban Maraqa (Jordanie)
Asmahan Bkerat (Jordanie)
Kayan Productions
Montage
Ban Maraqa (Jordanie)
Durée
90’’
Statut de production
Post-production
Finalisé en
2024
Impact Statement
Concrete Land is an intimate look at displacement, racism, and gentrification through the story of the Al Najar family, a close-knit Bedouin family navigating their relationship with the modern world. The central dilemma is about how to maintain their tradition and way of life while facing displacement due to societal biases. Our impact plan seeks to change the inadequate access to services (including education and health care) for Bedouins. We'll work with the local community groups to assess the community's needs and set up long-term solutions, like bringing their sheep back and connecting them back to the local market, which will improve the lives of the Bedouin community.

With our film, we aim to support Bedouin sustainability, celebrate their heritage, foster film culture, and improve their health and education services.
Impact Goals
  1. Achieving financial sustainability for the family and other Bedouins: through bringing back the animals they lost, connecting them to the local market to sell their animal products, and making an income from them.
  2. Fund extensive research on the Nakab Bedouins to document their lifestyle and intangible heritage and include it in national/ international museums.
  3. Cinema on wheels: Host screenings to the Bedouin community and to remote areas to create a film culture (Impact through cinema).
  4. Find a way to improve health and education services for the Bedouin minorities.
Impact Strategy
  • Help the family to establish a business, securing/leasing a piece of land, to generate a steady income by selling products derived from the animals.
  • Connect the family and other Bedouins to local markets to change the perspective of meat sourcing and encourage buying from them instead of industrial farms.
  • Fund extensive research on the Nakab Bedouins to document their lifestyle and intangible heritage, and include it in national museums.
  • Cinema on wheels: host screenings for the Bedouin community and to remote areas to create a film culture (Impact through cinema).
  • Sentiment analysis surveys pre and post screenings, to determine change of perception towards the film subjects.
  • Start a community centre in partnership with existing organisations where al-Naqab Bedouin would have a place where they can gather and hold community activities: workshops and trainings to make their Indigenous art, traditional weaving and hand-made embroidery to sell and sustainably run the centre and benefit the community. Also engage audiences with the Bedouin way of life.
Contact
Contact principal
Asmahan Bkerat (Jordanie): bk.asmahan@gmail.com
Participants présents aux Impacts Days
Ban Maraqa (Jordanie)
Asmahan Bkerat (Jordanie)

Media
Samya Ayesh, CNN Arabic

Media
Samya Ayesh, CNN Arabic