Film No. 20 (2025) March 5th. 1.15 PM LUNA CINEMA, Cinema 8, Leederville.
"We have to raise our voices, not be silent as if no human beings live here" (Basel makes his point to Hamdam as to why they need to document (film) everything).
WINNER: Best Feature Documentary (Basel Adra) The Oscars (2025).
If we take it that tolerance and empathy form the foundation for our belief system as human beings, then, the images depicted in NO OTHER LAND (NOL) are a brutal reality check on such an assumption.
In 2019 the Israeli Supreme Court designated that the West Bank region of Masafer Yatta become a military training ground. The fact that over 1800 Palestinians occupied that space seemed to matter little. NOL is an Academy Award winning documentary that will have you muttering the expletive WTF throughout. The occupants of Masafer have lived there all their lives. They have no other land. We witness bulldozers turning up, and within minutes mashing houses, businesses and even a school (students look on) into rubble. But despite the hate between these nations, the film is a collaboration between Palestinian, Basel Adra and Israeli, Yuval Adraham. Their friendship is exhilarating. Their conversations throughout the film plead for peace, for empathy among their own, for hope, quality of life, love, care and tolerance. And on top of this, there are their images! Unbelievable!
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