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NO OTHER LAND Documentary

Description

Screening to be followed by a conversation with directors Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham.

Basel Adra is a Palestinian activist living under occupation in the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta. Yuval Abraham is an Israeli journalist whose freedom of movement allows him to come and go as he pleases. As unlikely as it might seem, the two strike up a friendship and, together with Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal, form a collective to document the gradual destruction of Masafer Yatta, the forced eviction of its Palestinian residents and the illegal takeover of their lands at the hands of Israeli authorities. The haunting images they capture – homes torn down by bulldozers, violent nighttime raids, vile verbal abuse – are interwoven with archival footage of a young Adra and his activist family to paint a harrowing portrait of injustice wrought upon Palestinians. Winner of the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, NO OTHER LAND is both a powerful act of resistance and a clarion call for change. –Javier Chavez

Bios

Basel Adra, a Palestinian filmmaker born in 1996, has documented reality in his home community of Masafer Yatta since the age of 14 and has worked as a journalist and for various human rights organizations. Rachel Szor, an Israeli filmmaker born in 1994, is a video journalist and a cinematographer. Yuval Abraham, an Israeli filmmaker born in 1995, is a journalist who has spent years writing about the Israeli occupation. Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian filmmaker born in 1989, is a photographer, farmer and human rights researcher. This is the four filmmakers’ first feature film, on which they have worked together for five years.