Filmmakers: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor
In Arabic, Hebrew, English with English subtitles (2024) – 95 min.
This vérité-style documentary made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four filmmakers over the course of Yasafer five years chronicles the systemic destruction of Masafer Yatta, a community of Palestinian villages in the West Bank. Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham film the bulldozing of homes and schools … and the villagers’ perseverance. In addition to indelible footage captured by its undaunted witnesses, No Other Land depicts an emerging friendship between Adra and Abraham. (The film has violent & disturbing, though not graphic, scenes.)