No Other Land (2024) | documentary
Tue, 18 Feb
|173 Palmerston Rd
A stark portrait of the daily struggles of Palestinian communities subjected to Israeli home demolitions, forced displacement, and restrictions on movement.
Time & Location
18 Feb 2025, 7:00 pm – 8:40 pm
173 Palmerston Rd, 173 Palmerston Road, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
A stark portrait of the daily struggles of Palestinian communities subjected to Israeli home demolitions, forced displacement, and restrictions on movement. Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor. Best documentary at Berlin film festival 2024, Oscar nominee for Best International Feature Film 2025 Produced by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, this is a film poised to meet a world changed by events that have unfolded since it wrapped production in October 2023.
No Other Land documents a Palestinian village and its residents as they struggle against forced displacement. The West Bank’s Masafer Yatta faces mass evictions at the hands of Israeli authorities. Yet this is as much a story of its own co-directors’ asymmetrical relationship, as it is an account of events in Masafer Yatta. The result is a masterful exploration of 21st century apartheid and colonisation.
Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor in…