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. The film 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 the role of Bedouin the only identity the State of Israel allows them, the very identity it systematically denies them. Substandard citizenship, coupled with daily existential obstacles posed by the State, are what this film is about.

Recognized was filmed entirely on location in the Negev desert in the summer of 2006.

Israel/USA 2007, 61min
Hebrew and Arabic w/English subtitles