No Other Land - A Must See Film!

 

No Other Land – is well-worth seeing!   It will hit very close to home for anyone who cares about The Palestinian People and/or The Israeli (Jewish) People.

I began to write a review after watching it – and stopped and didn’t get back to it.  What I wrote follows:

No Other Land is a 2024 documentary film directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor in their directorial debut. The film was made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four activists in what they describe as an act of resistance on the path to justice during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The film shows the destruction of a community in the occupied West Bank who had been resisting eviction following the declaration of an Israeli "firing zone" on their land.[3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Other_Land

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “No Other Land,” the story of Palestinian activists fighting to protect their communities from demolition by the Israeli military, won the Oscar for best documentary on Sunday.

https://apnews.com/article/best-documentary-2025-oscars-f589d9ed361df2220a1f0e122fe9f84b

For those not in the:  “Israel can do no wrong, because God Bequested it 100% to us” and/or “Israel has bent over backwards to make peace, but the Arabs repeatedly have rejected a fair settlement and there’s no one to negotiate with….” Schools – this film is most appropriately an Oscar Winner in 2025.

I cried a lot while watching the film (not rare for me).   I also felt a lot of anger, grief and similar!   No matter which polite term or expletive – or simply – “Genocide” comes to mind, the story clearly brings out the vision in spades!

Basel – a most caring Palestinian man is in danger of being arrested, killed or seriously injured during most of the film.   Yuval – the Israeli – investigative journalist – or simply – the documenter of the horrors of fellow Israeli Jews all around him – tries to support him and late in the film jokingly says that they are or should be married.

  Plenty of links and summaries and more follow.

No Other Land is a 2024 documentary film directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor in their directorial debut. The film was made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four activists in what they describe as an act of resistance on the path to justice during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The film was recorded between 2019 and 2023 and shows the destruction of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank which had been resisting forced displacement following the declaration of an Israeli "firing zone" on their land.[3][4]

A co-production between Palestine and Norway, the film was selected for the Panorama section at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 16 February 2024,[5] winning the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film,[6] and the Berlinale Documentary Film Award.[7] The film won Best Documentary Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Other_Land

https://releasing.dogwoof.com/no-other-land - Dogwoof is a London-based documentary film company integrating production, sales, and theatrical distribution. Dogwoof has released 37 Oscar-nominated documentaries,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pI2IXKtlew&t=3s – UK Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sjFgq-sRLk - Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham on No Other Land | NYFF62 (note:  interview with Palestinian and Israeli co-filmmakers of this film)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt30953759/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/3/what-oscar-winning-no-other-land-is-about-and-where-you-can-watch-it

https://deadline.com/2025/03/miami-beach-no-other-land-cinema-threatened-with-closure-1236326175/ - Miami Beach Mayor Threatens To Close Down Cinema For Showing Oscar Winner ‘No Other Land’; Director Says Banning Doc “Won’t Work”

https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/the-oscar-winner-that-committed-the-gravest-sin-of-all-empathy-sdzfg7kj8?utm_source=chatgpt.com&region=global

https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi-no-other-land-faqs

 

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