Screening Date: 16 October 2025
Screening Time: 7 pm
Release Date: 2024
Directors: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
Country: Palestine / Norway
Running Time: 96 mins
Rating: M
Language: Arabic, Hebrew & English (with English subtitles)
A frontline chronicle of life in the occupied West Bank, No Other Land follows Palestinian activist–filmmaker Basel Adra as he documents Israel’s systematic demolition of his home region, Masafer Yatta. When Adra’s lens collides with that of Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, an unlikely friendship—and filmmaking collective—emerges, offering rare, dual-perspective testimony to dispossession and resistance. The result is as intimate as it is incendiary, capturing bulldozers at dawn, courtrooms at dusk and the fragile joys that persist between.
It’s always fraught when activism and art share a frame; you can’t help wondering if polemic will swamp narrative. Will anger eclipse empathy? Can footage shot under military harassment cohere into cinema? In this case, emphatically yes.
Shot over four perilous years—cameras seized twice by soldiers, hard-drives smuggled across checkpoints—the film was cut on laptops in borrowed apartments, then thundered into the 2024 Berlinale to seize both the Panorama Audience Prize and the Berlinale Documentary Award. Eighteen months later it stormed the Oscars, taking Best Documentary Feature and cementing its makers’ place on the global stage.
More than a dispatch from a conflict zone, No Other Land asks where solidarity begins and whether shared witnessing can redraw borders of the heart. By its final shot—a shaky phone-torch illuminating shattered masonry—the film leaves a question echoing louder than any verdict: whose land is truly “no other’s”?
“Stark, unflinching… essential viewing.” – The Guardian
