Concrete Land

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.
Asmahan Bkerat (Jordanie)
Ban Maraqa (Jordanie)
Asmahan Bkerat (Jordanie)
Kayan Productions
- 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.
- Fund extensive research on the Nakab Bedouins to document their lifestyle and intangible heritage and include it in national/ international museums.
- Cinema on wheels: Host screenings to the Bedouin community and to remote areas to create a film culture (Impact through cinema).
- Find a way to improve health and education services for the Bedouin minorities.
- 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.
Asmahan Bkerat (Jordanie)
Media
Samya Ayesh, CNN Arabic
Media
Samya Ayesh, CNN Arabic