Aqabat Jaber

When it was built at the beginning of the 1950’s in the desert of Judea, on the West Bank, Aqabat Jaber was the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in the Middle East (65,000 inhabitants). Today, only 2,500 people live in the mud huts of this abandoned and half-destroyed camp. The film deals with a particular way of life : “passing through”. It is a look at two very different, but parallel worlds, settled nomads and uprooted agricultural people, living by chance in this strange community. Aqabat Jaber: a temporary solution that has become a way of life which continues, 38 years later…