Opens Friday, January 31

DIRECTED BY BASEL ADRA, HAMDAN BALLAL, YUVAL ABRAHAM, & RACHEL SZOR

ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE, BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activist/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary. Over a period of five years (2019–23), Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra shoots video of home, school, water well, and road demolitions (legalized by the area’s conversion to an IDF training zone) and their consequent protests by displaced residents. Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham — free to move about while Adra’s movements are constricted — takes this nonviolent fight to a wider platform. The two form a complicated friendship and hopeful partnership in their efforts to resist a government-sanctioned mass eviction.

Presented with support from The Richard Brick, Geri Ashur, and Sara Bershtel Fund for Social Justice Documentaries

2024  96 MIN.  NORWAY / PALESTINE  mTUCKMAN MEDIA /CINETIC MEDIA
IN ARABIC, ENGLISH, AND HEBREW WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES