SILVER

Basel Adra is a Palestinian activist living under occupation in the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta. Yuval Abraham is an Israeli journalist whose freedom of movement allows him to come and go as he pleases. As unlikely as it might seem, the two strike up a friendship and, together with Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal, form a collective to document the gradual destruction of Masafer Yatta, the forced eviction of its Palestinian residents and the illegal takeover of their lands at the hands of Israeli authorities. The haunting images they capture — homes torn down by bulldozers, violent nighttime raids, vile verbal abuse — are interwoven with archival footage of a young Adra and his activist family to paint a harrowing portrait of injustice wrought upon Palestinians. Winner of the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary at 2024’s Berlin Film Festival, NO OTHER LAND is both a powerful act of resistance and a clarion call for change. (Note courtesy of AFI FEST.) DIR/SCR/PROD Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor; PROD Fabrien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning. Palestine/Norway, 2024, color, 95 min. In Arabic, English and Hebrew with English subtitles. NOT RATED