No Other Land

October 5th

Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra | Palestine, Norway

2024 | 95m | Arabic, Hebrew, English

Official Selection, TIFF ’24

Winner of the 2025 Oscar for Best Documentary

One of the most urgent films of the year and winner of jury and audience prizes at the Berlin Film Festival, No Other Land offers an essential and unflinching look at life under Israeli military occupation.

Basel Adra has been documenting the expulsion and decimation of his community in the small mountain village of Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank since childhood. Adra’s early memories as a child are plagued with images of Israeli soldiers raiding his home, witnessing his father Nasser, a Palestinian activist, being arrested, and the ongoing Israeli military occupation and settler aggression. By picking up his camera, Adra continually speaks truth to power as he tirelessly documents his reality: impending forced removals, bulldozers destroying homes, and the violence that inevitably follows. The film takes place prior to October 7, 2023, when attention to the region was in shorter supply.

Content advisory: real-life violence and brutality, gunfire, destruction, accident trauma, mature themes. The topics addressed in this film may inspire strong emotional responses.