No Other Land

Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Palestine
2024
96 mins

Synopsis

A multi-award winner at Berlinale 2024 from a Palestinian-Israeli collective, this salient documentary follows a community’s forced expulsion through the eyes of a West Bank activist and an Israeli journalist.

Yuval and Basel are a similar age and live not far from each other, but they have vastly different life experiences. Their uncommon alliance begins in 2019, when Israeli Yuval visits Palestinian Basel and his family while reporting on forced evictions. Over four years they become friends, working together and filming as tensions rise following the outcome of the Masafer Yatta community’s 22-year court case. Bulldozers move in, destroying homes and buildings. Villagers rebuild – only for the homes to be torn down again. Despite the confronting content, the resulting documentary is not without hope and humanity. No Other Land is essential viewing.

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The footage is out there, and itu2019s rarely been assembled into a more concise, powerful, and damning array than it is here. Now it only has to be seen
David Ehrlich, IndieWire

Tickets

Thu 13 June 2024, 8:30am
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 1
Assisted ListeningWheelchairSubtitled
Sat 15 June 2024, 8am
Event Cinemas George Street - Cinema 4
Assisted ListeningWheelchairSubtitled
  • Year
    2024
  • Country
    Palestine, Norway
  • Language
    In Arabic, Hebrew and English with English subtitles
  • Director
    Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
  • Producer
    Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Basel Adra, Hamdan Billal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
  • Screenwriter
    Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
  • Cinematographer
    Rachel Szor
  • Editor
    Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
  • Genre
    Documentary, Festival Award Winners, Human Rights, Middle East
  • Premiere
    Australian Premiere
  • Company Credits
    Australian Distributor: HiGloss Entertainment
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