IN CINEMA

Friday, April 11, 2025 at 7pm

NO OTHER LAND

Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, 2025, 96 min.

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. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.

“We’re making this film together, as a Palestinian-Israeli collective, because we desperately want to stop the Israeli-led ongoing ethnic cleansing of the community of Masafer Yatta, and because we want to resist the reality of Apartheid we were born into - from opposite, unequal, sides. Life in our land is becoming scarier, more violent, more oppressive, every day - and we feel helpless, fighting against very powerful systems of control. We can only shout out something radically different to the world - this film - which at its core, is not only proof of Israeli settler-colonial war crimes taking place in the present, but also a proposal for the future, a search for a path towards justice and equality and an end to Apartheid. We made this film because we believe that there can be no just future between the river and the sea for all the inhabitants without real justice for the Palestinian people and the Palestinian refugees. The theme of displacement, from the Nakba to today’s forced transfer of entire populations in the West Bank and most of Gaza’s population during the genocide, is crucial to our film, as we hope to spark change to end it, allowing refugees and displaced people to return home and live in peace."

General Admission $15 / Reduced Price $7