Award-Winning Doc About Palestine – ‘No Other Land’ Official Trailer
by Alex Billington
September 1, 2024
Source: YouTube
“We have to raise our voices…” Dogwoof has unveiled an official UK trailer for the acclaimed, award-wining film titled No Other Land, made by a group of four filmmakers from Palestine & Israel. This premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, where it won two major awards – then the filmmakers sadly ended up threatened and the festival didn’t properly defend them which is a shame. I caught up with the doc at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this summer and I very moved and unsettled by its portrayal of life in West Bank. For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who also wants to join his fight. There is no way anyone can watch this doc and not see, plain as day, what is really going on with Israel doing horrible things to Palestine and treating so many of these simple people so poorly. I’m glad films like this exist to show us the truth about what is really happening, documenting the reality even if so many people insist upon denying it. Still waiting for this to get an actual US release date. Take a look below.
Here’s the official UK trailer (+ poster) for Adra, Ballal, Abraham, Szor’s doc No Other Land, on YouTube:
Basel Adra is a Palestinian lawyer, journalist and filmmaker from Masafer Yatta (here). He has been an activist and documentarian since 15, fighting against Israel’s mass expulsion of his community. Rachel Szor is an Israeli cinematographer, editor, and director from Jerusalem. Hamdan Ballal is a Palestinian photographer, filmmaker and farmer from Susya, and has also worked as a researcher for several anti-occupation human rights groups. Yuval Abraham is an Israeli filmmaker and investigative journalist from Jerusalem. No Other Land is a documentary co-directed by four filmmakers from both Palestine & Israel: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor. Produced by Fabien Greenberg and Bård Kjøge Rønning. This initially premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, where it won the Berlinale Documentary Award + Panorama Audience Award. Dogwoof opens No Other Land in UK cinemas starting on November 8th, 2024 this fall. No US release date has been set yet – stay tuned. Visit their site.
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