Film Screening "No Other Land" Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary
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A second viewing of the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land" as part of the Buffalo International Film Festival has been scheduled!
Where: Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, 341 Delaware Ave
When: Saturday May 10th, 4pm
Tickets: https://hallwalls.org/media-arts/6657.html
After the showing there will be a discussion with JVP and LOLA.
If you have managed to miss a description of the film so far, one can be found below:
Basel Adra has been documenting the expulsion and decimation of his community in the small mountain village of Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank since childhood. Adra’s early memories as a child are plagued with images of Israeli soldiers raiding his home, witnessing his father Nasser, a Palestinian activist, being arrested, and the ongoing Israeli military occupation and settler aggression. By picking up his camera, Adra continually speaks truth to power as he tirelessly documents his reality: impending forced removals, bulldozers destroying homes, and the violence that inevitably follows. The film takes place prior to October 7, 2023, when attention to the region was in shorter supply.
During Adra’s fight to preserve his mountain village community, he forms an unexpected friendship and alliance with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who joins his resistance efforts. It is clear this bond is not one grounded in equity, with Adra living under occupation and Abraham’s freedom of movement. Yet the relationship that develops between the two — showing deep care, humanity, and above all how solidarity can break down barriers, even during occupation — is at the heart of this piece.
Made under extreme duress and unimaginable production hardships, this film comes from a Palestinian-Israeli activist collective formed of Adra, Abraham, Rachel Szor, and Hamdan Ballal.