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‘No Other Land,’ a documentary on Israeli colonization in the occupied West Bank, nominated for the Oscars

The title received the award for Best Documentary Film at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2024.

‘No Other Land,’ a documentary on Israeli colonization in the occupied West Bank, nominated for the Oscars

The poster for the documentary film "No Other Land," directed by Palestinian and Israeli activists.

It was nighttime and the only sound was the approaching sirens of the Israeli police. The trailer for No Other Land, a film first screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2024, set the tone immediately. The documentary aimed to show the brutal reality of the everyday life of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank through a human story. That of a friendship forming between a Palestinian, Bassel Adra, who tried to document the loss of his native land in the village of Masafer Yatta, surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements, and a Jewish Israeli journalist, Yuval Abraham, with whom he covered the violence of Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.Bassel has resisted forced displacement by the Israeli army since childhood. He recorded the progressive destruction of his native land, where...
It was nighttime and the only sound was the approaching sirens of the Israeli police. The trailer for No Other Land, a film first screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2024, set the tone immediately. The documentary aimed to show the brutal reality of the everyday life of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank through a human story. That of a friendship forming between a Palestinian, Bassel Adra, who tried to document the loss of his native land in the village of Masafer Yatta, surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements, and a Jewish Israeli journalist, Yuval Abraham, with whom he covered the violence of Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.Bassel has resisted forced displacement by the Israeli army since childhood. He recorded the progressive destruction of his native land, where...
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