No Other Land

Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Palestine / Norway 2024, 95 minutes

Arabic, Hebrew, English, English subtitles

This most powerful and moving Palestinian Israeli collaboration between Palestinian activist and lawyer Basel Adra, Palestinian photographer and farmer Hamdan Ballal, Israeli activist and journalist Yuval Abraham and cinematographer Rachel Szor,was filmed in the West Bank’s Masafar Yatta area. It follows Basel and Yuval and reveals the stark difference between their lives - Basel lives under military occupation, under threat of constant violence and surveillance whereas Yuval is free to roam and return after a day’s filming to Israeli territories.

Beginning in 2019 and filming all the way until December 2023, the documentary bears witness to the long-running violence against Masafar Yatta by both the Israeli army and settlers in what is described in the film’s press notes as “the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank”.