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No Other Land

By Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Balal
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Join us for a special screening of the film No Other Land, heralded as one of the most important and influential film of 2024. For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

About the film

The young Palestinian activist Basel Adra lives in Masafer Yatta, a centuries-old network of Bedouin villages in the West Bank. His community is the target of an aggressive Israeli eviction campaign. During the day, bulldozers flatten villages, at night desperate residents rebuild their homes. Working with the Jewish-Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and two co-directors, Adra started a film collective. From the summer of 2019, they turned their hand-held cameras on the soldiers. Old home videos and a voice-over, illustrate that the oppression has been going on much longer. Although the documentary was finished in October 2023, the directors end with disturbing images of Masafer Yatta following the war on Gaza. It makes this urgent film—awarded the Berlinale Best Documentary Prize and winner of many audience awards—both a history lesson and a tragic prologue.

About the filmmakers

Basel Adra is a Palestinian lawyer, journalist, and filmmaker from Masafer Yatta. He has been an activist and documentarian since 15, fighting against Israel's mass expulsion of his community. Rachel Szor is an Israeli cinematographer, editor, and director from Jerusalem. Hamdan Ballal is a Palestinian photographer, filmmaker, and farmer from Susya, and has worked as a researcher for several anti-occupation human rights groups. Yuval Abraham is an Israeli filmmaker and investigative journalist from Jerusalem.

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