For Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta on the southern West Bank, the mass expulsion of his community has been a lifelong reality. Faced with the systematic demolition of homes and schools, carried out to make room for an Israeli military training ground, residents confront a painful choice: either move away and relinquish their land or endure and try to rebuild. With the help of Yuval Abraham, an Israeli journalist, Adra documents the evictions and organizes protests against them, even as the pair’s unequal personal situations hang over their work together.
Filmed vérité-style by a four-person Palestinian–Israeli collective over a period of five years, No Other Land is an eye-opening look at the realities of Israeli occupation. Winner of two documentary awards at this year’s Berlinale, the film alternates between scenes of harrowing immediacy and heartbreaking intimacy. It is at once a testament to the resilience of those who stay and fight, as well as a sobering meditation on the power—and the limits—of filmmaking.
Best Documentary Award, Berlin 2024
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Palestine/Norway
2024
In Arabic, Hebrew and English with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Producer
Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning
Screenwriter
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Cinematography
Rachel Szor
Editor
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Original Music
Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker born in 1996, has documented reality in his home community of Masafer Yatta since the age of fourteen and worked for various human rights organizations and as a journalist. Yuval, an Israeli filmmaker born in 1995, is a journalist who has spent years writing about the Israeli occupation, mostly in Hebrew. Rachel, an Israeli filmmaker born in 1994, is a video journalist and a cinematographer. Hamdan, a Palestinian filmmaker born in 1989, is a photographer, farmer, and human rights researcher.
Basel Adra
Hamdan Ballal
Yuval Abraham
Rachel Szor
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