No Other Land
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“I started to film, when we started to end”
Overview
Winner of multiple festival and audience awards, No Other Land is an urgent, vital documentary work. Since 2019 Palestinian activist Basel Adra has been recording the displacement of his people in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers and settlers, who use bulldozers to level homes and evict the inhabitants. He is befriended by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and together, with a collective of Palestinian & Israeli filmmakers, they document five years in the 20-some farming villages that make up the community of Masafer Yatta where daily lives are interrupted by explosive violence. The group's mutual trust is threatened by the oppression faced by the Palestinian members as they try to find a way towards peaceful existence in the face of mounting terror.
Winner - Berlinale Documentary Film Award
“Essential viewing...a damning new film that offers a stark insider’s look at the conflict”
“The year's most powerful documentary”
“The footage is out there, and it’s rarely been assembled into a more concise, powerful, and damning array than it is here...this must-see documentary offers a ground-level view of an occupation in action.”
Why You Should See This Film
This remarkable story of resistance alone would be compelling, but Adra and Abraham, along with Israeli Rachel Szor and Palestinian Hamdan Ballal, combine the passion of activism with the instincts of seasoned journalists to create an extraordinarily tight drama woven into chapters that reflect the seasons of the land. Threads of solidarity and the imbalance of power shift throughout, the focus remaining always on centring the Palestinian experience. A timely film although by no means a cynical one, No Other Land provides a devastating view of the West Bank conflict in miniature.
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