No Other Land

Feb 21—Feb 27, 2025

Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor (2024)

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 demolition and displacement. Beyond its indelible footage of destruction and expulsion, 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 the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2024 Berlinale.