Dogwoof has released its new trailer for the award-winning No Other Land, directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, ahead of its November 8 release within UK cinemas.
The film has picked up a number of high-profile wins this year, including the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin and Documentary Award at Berlinale 2024, as well as Tim Hetherington Award at the 2024 Sheffield Documentary Festival.
Synopsis: Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families – the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer.
Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.
In a joint statement, the four directors comment on No Other Land: “We’re making this film together, a Palestinian-Israeli group of activists and filmmakers, because we want to stop the ongoing expulsion of the community of Masafer Yatta and resist the reality of Apartheid we were born into – from opposite, unequal sides. Reality around us is becoming scarier, more violent, more oppressive, every day – and we are very weak in front of it. We can only shout out something radically different, this film – which at its core, is a proposal for an alternate way Israelis and Palestinians can live in this land – not as oppressor and oppressed, but in full equality.”
International sales for the film are handled by Autlook.
