Origin: Unknown | Documentary | Director: Ori Kleiner | 61 minutes

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Recognized

Ori Kleiner 2007 docu 61 min.

Director's statement: "Bedouin usually appear in the Israeli collective
consciousness as either "ethnographic" or "demographic" issues. Their
representation by means of various objects: coffee, camels, tents, carpets
keeps most Israelis from seeing them as people with hopes and dreams,
frustrations and fears, as possessing not only a past but a future as well.
Recognized focuses on the fragmented experiences of Nuri al Ukbi, Salman
Abu Jlidan, Eid Al Athamin, Ibrahim Abu Afash, and Samaher Abu Jlidan whom
history has cast in the roles of protagonists antagonized by a state that
has established itself upon their ancestral lands. Recognized is not a film
about Bedouin, but about people forced into a role of Bedouin as the only
identity the State of Israel allows them, and at the same time the very
identity it systematically denies them. Substandard citizenship, coupled
with daily existential obstacles posed by the State, are what this film is
concerned with."