The film Class
by Sara Groundland
THE audience at Esra’s latest offering of its Cinema Club on Tuesday December
26 braved the stormy weather to view a most interesting film called The Film
Class, and was warmly treated to its fascinating content.
The movie was a total surprise to me as I didn’t know that there was a
racial (black and white) intolerance amongst the Bedouin who live in the
Negev.The director, Uri Rosenwaks, was teaching the art of filming to a group
of black Bedouin women who live in abject poverty in the town of Rahat
When he asked the women about their history, he was told by them that
they knew nothing of their grandparents/great grandparents or their background.
After some 18 months and as part of their course, a film they made of a
black Bedouin child saying on camera how she was castigated by her school
friends for being a black slave, jolted the women into investigating their roots.
They finally discovered that the black Bedouin were descendants of slaves
brought by the Arabs from Africa at the beginning of the 20th century.
The ongoing narration of how a young black Bedouin boy and a white
Bedouin girl fell in love and married, and how he was literally run out of town
by the white Bedouin girl’s family shows that today wide racial barriers exist
in the Bedouin community and, even tothis day, he is living abroad in hiding
and in fear of his life. Rosenwaks explained to us about the different levels
of Bedouin society, and how the black Bedouin were at the lowest rung of the
ladder, as the white Bedouin see them as slaves. The Israeli Government is,
by and large, ignoring these 9,000 black Bedouins, and as the population is
growing yearly the only input the government gives is to open schools for all
Bedouin children each year (regardless of color). ]
The audience showed empathy with the black Bedouin, as evidenced by the
questions asked and answered by the director at the end of the film, and a
truly interesting and informative evening was had by all.
Ruth Diskin Films Ltd. http://www.ruthfilms.com/
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