Nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Documentary
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families — the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. Co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region by a collective of Palestinians and Israelis, NO OTHER LAND is an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.
“Watching the harrowing images in NO OTHER LAND often recalls what Gordon Parks said about the power of being a photographer: ‘I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe.’ In the hands of these filmmakers the camera becomes a weapon for truth and resistance, and a tool for conservation — recording some proof that their village existed. It’s the latter impulse, as the filmmakers watch homes be cleared, neighbors shoved from their places of memory, and lineages destroyed, where NO OTHER LAND stands as a vital documentation of a people under siege.” —Robert Daniels, rogerebert.com “Given the conditions of its production, NO OTHER LAND would be vital even in a more ragged form. But the filmmaking here is tight and considered, with nimble editing (by the directors themselves) that captures the sense of time at once passing and looping back on itself.” —Guy Lodge, Variety “Along with the documentation of material destruction and displacement, the movie is a record of psychological warfare, of the effort to demolish morale, suppress energy, break will. This, as much as the physical violence that it documents, gives the movie immense moral authority.” —Richard Brody, New Yorker “A really extraordinary piece of work. Not just in terms of what it documents, but also how it's made, the form of the film…. [If the film doesn’t get distribution] I'm going to hand out copies myself on Fifth Avenue!” —Jonathan Glazer (THE ZONE OF INTEREST)
