This harrowing Oscar-nominated film is the result of a four year collaboration by Israeli and Palestinian journalists and activists. It shows footage from 2019 to 2023 of the gradual destruction and occupation of villages in the southern Hebron Hills of the West Bank – which has been under Israeli military occupation since the Six Day War in 1967.
Recorded by video, camcorders, phones and digital cameras, the film was made by Israeli journalist Yuval Andra, Israeli cinematographer Rachel Szor, Palestinian journalist Basel Andra (who has been resisting the displacement of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta since he was a child) and Palestinian Hamdan Ballal.
In the 1990s Masafer Yatta was designated as a live-fire training zone for the Israeli army who undertook the gradual destruction of homes, property, schools, roads and infrastructure. An Israeli law prevented the residents from getting building permits, saying they were living in a firing zone.
It is estimated there are three million Palestinians and more than 450,000 Jewish settlers, often protected by the army, living in the West Bank.
No Other Land has been distributed in 24 countries including England and France – but it has no distribution in the United States.
It has won more than 20 awards from festivals around the world – made in the hope of raising awareness, and the ending of the occupation. It leaves no hope for a better future.
92 minutes.
Spoken in Arabic with English subtitles.
Showing at Somerville Crawley from Friday, February 21 to Sunday February 23, at 8 pm.
Watch the trailer…
