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No Other Land

No Other Land

Basel Adra, Hamdan Balal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Norway, Palestine
2024
96 min
Dutch Premiere
Best of Fests
Synopsis

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, supposedly to make way for a military base. 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 cameras on the soldiers. The jerky hand-held images emphasize how precarious the situation is. Everyday scenes show a friendship blossoming between the two activists. Using old home videos and a voice-over, Adra explains that the oppression afflicting his community has been going on much longer.

Although the documentary was finished in October 2023, the directors end with disturbing images of Masafer Yatta in wartime. 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.

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Credits
96 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: Arabic, Hebrew, English
Director
    Basel Adra,
    Hamdan Balal,
    Yuval Abraham,
    Rachel Szor
    Basel Adra,
    Hamdan Balal,
    Yuval Abraham,
    Rachel Szor
Production
    Basel El-Adara,
    Rachel Szor,
    Hamdan Balal,
    Yuval Abraham,
    Fabien Greenberg,
    Bård Kjøge Rønning
    Basel El-Adara,
    Rachel Szor,
    Hamdan Balal,
    Yuval Abraham,
    Fabien Greenberg,
    Bård Kjøge Rønning
Cinematography
    Rachel Szor
    Rachel Szor
Editing
    Basel Adra,
    Rachel Szor,
    Hamdan Balal,
    Yuval Abraham
    Basel Adra,
    Rachel Szor,
    Hamdan Balal,
    Yuval Abraham
Music
    Julius Pollux Rothlaender
    Julius Pollux Rothlaender
Screenplay
    Basel Adra,
    Yuval Abraham,
    Hamdan Balal,
    Rachel Shor
    Basel Adra,
    Yuval Abraham,
    Hamdan Balal,
    Rachel Shor
World Sales
    Autlook Filmsales
    Autlook Filmsales
Distribution for the Netherlands
    Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie
    Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie
Screening copy
    Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie
    Cherry Pickers Filmdistributie

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