Wednesday, March 5th, Film at 6:30pm – in person at UMass Amherst, Room 137, Isenberg School of Management, 121 Presidents Dr, Amherst, MA
Film Screening “No Other Land”
(2024, Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor, Palestine/Israel, 92 min, in Arabic, Hebrew & English w/ 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. Winner of multiple awards including the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2024 Berlinale. An NYFF62 Main Slate selection.
Trailer: No Other Land - Official UK Trailer
Free and open to the public
Introduced by Hannah Moushabeck (Palestinian American Author, Editor & Marketer)
Hannah Moushabeck is a queer second-generation Palestinian American author, editor, and marketer who was raised in a family of booksellers and publishers. Born in Brooklyn into Interlink Publishing, a family-run independent publishing house, she learned the power of literature at a young age. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine is her first picture book. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations.
Source: websites.umass.edu/mmff/no-other-land-february-2-26/