March 16 - 20 in person at the Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline, MA
Screenings of “No Other Land”
Runtime 1hr 35mins Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor Featuring Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham Film Language in Arabic, English, and Hebrew with English subtitles
This eye-opening, vérité-style documentary, made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years, provides a harrowing account of the systematic onslaught of destruction experienced by Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank, at the hands of the Israeli military.
Headed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham (also two of the film’s directors), the collective commits itself to filming and protesting the demolitions of homes and schools and the resulting displacement of their inhabitants, which were carried out to make way for Israeli military training ground.
In addition to the indelible footage of destruction and expulsion captured by its undaunted witnesses, No Other Land serves as a moving portrait of friendship between Adra and Abraham, who form a philosophical and political alliance despite the drastic differences in their abilities to exist freely in this world.