No Other Land
This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
Awards
Berlin Int’l FF (2024) – Winner: Panorama Audience Award: Documentary Film; Berlinale Documentary Award
CPH:DOX (2024) – Winner: Audience Award
Human Int’l Doc FF (2024) – Winner: The Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Award
Millennium Docs Against Gravity (2024) – Winner: Grand Prix Bank Millenium Award Best Film; Bydgoszcz ART.DOC Award; Audience Award
Sheffield Int’l Doc FF (2023) – Nominated: Tim Hetherington Award
Visions du Rรฉel Int’l FF Nyon (2024) – Winner: Grand Angle Audience Award
ZagrebDox (2024) – Winner: Audience Award
Screenings โ CT
Screenings โ JHB
Screenings โ DBN
No Other Land is filmmaker Basel Adra’s powerful first-person account of living in the Palestinian village of Masafer Yatta, located in an area of the West Bank occupied by the Israeli army, who have declared it a training ground and are intent on removing the local population and their homes, even though they have been living there since the 19th century. As demolition order after demolition order is carried out by the soldiers and their tanks and bulldozers, the families are forced to rebuild some semblance of a homeโthey have nowhere else to go, no other land. Adra spent five years documenting the relentless evictions and demolitionsโof homes, playgrounds, chicken coops, water wells, and even a schoolโoften in the company of sympathetic Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, and the resulting film is a vital addition to the documentary canon. But it is also, more importantly, an undeniable record of events that receive little attention in the world’s news sites and television feeds.
Guests
Panellist: Ahmad Ghunaim
Panellist: Jaamiah Galant
Panel Moderator: Khalid Shamis
Panellist: Maya Schkolne
Panellist: Mongane Wally Serote
Panellist: Muhammad Dawjee
Panellist: Phillippa Yaa De Villiers
Ster-Kinekor V&A 11 Sun 23 June 2pm + Panel
POST PANEL DISCUSSION: โInevitability and Temporal Reflections Amidst Crisisโ
When the inevitable is imminent what meaning then does time hold? Can a film such as this be considered โtimelyโ when it is recorded at the apex of a more than a 100 year crisis? What then of the power of patience as Adra states to his Israeli ally โYou want to end the occupation in ten days – it requires patience.โ
We give our time today to Dr Ala Alhourani, a senior lecturer in the Department for Study of Religions at the University of Cape Town whose research foregrounds aesthetic experiences of religion as embodied, knowledge, power, and traditions, and Maya Schkolne from South African Jews for a Free Palestine (SAJFP), to discuss this and other notions of endurance and fortitude in the face of such immense subjugation.
The Zone @ Rosebank 3 Sun 30 June 4.30pm + Panel
POST PANEL DISCUSSION: โThe Artist as Witness, Ally and Friendโ
Featuring artists who have used their mediums to cross โenemy linesโ and whose work builds bridges between sites of struggle across time, space and place, explores the vital role of artists in producing imaginaries that transcend dominant divides towards solidarity, movement building and camaraderie through artistic process and practice.
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