One of the most important films of the year — winner of both the ‘Best Documentary’ and ‘Audience’ awards at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival — NO OTHER LAND is a sobering yet inspiring tale of Palestinian resistance under occupation.
Basel Adra is a young Palestinian activist and lawyer from Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank. Since childhood, he has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion — the largest single act of forced displacement ever carried out in the West Bank — by the Israeli occupation.
Yuval Abraham, an Israeli investigative journalist, lives a starkly different life to Adra. Striking up an unlikely friendship, the two commit themselves to documenting and protesting the demolition of Palestinian communities in the West Bank. With the help of an Israeli-Palestinian filmmaking collective, they capture the IDF destroying homes, razing schools and playgrounds, and sealing drinking wells to establish a military training ground.
A front-runner for the Best Documentary Oscar and audience award winner at numerous festivals worldwide, NO OTHER LAND is a vital and inspiring testament to the resilience of the Palestinian people.
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor
2024
Norway / Palestine
Arabic, Hebrew / English
96 MIN
MA 15+
THE MOST HIGHLY HONOURED DOCUMENTARY OF 2024
Winner: Best Documentary - Berlin Film Festival 2024
Winner: Audience Award - Berlin Film Festival 2024
Winner: Best Documentary - Gotham Awards
Winner: Best Non-Fic Film - NYFCC Awards
Winner: Freedom of Expression Awards - National Board of Review
Winner: Best Director / Documentary - International Documentary Association
Winner: Documentary - International Documentary Association
Winner: Best Feature Doc - European Film AwardsBest Doc - LAFCA
Winner: Audience Award - CPH:DOX 2024
Winner: Audience Award - Visions du Réel 2024
“The Movie of the Moment”
POV Magazine
“It is a story about power and it needs to be told”
The Film Stage
“Urgent and Eye-Opening”
Screen Daily
“A Vital Documentation of People under Siege"
Roger Ebert
“Powerful, provocative and Moving”
Business Doc Europe
“A Devastating Portrait”
The Hollywood Reporter
“Illuminating and Incisive”
Film Forward
“Powerful”
The Film Stage
“A Genuine Cry for a Hopeful Solution”
Shadows on the Wall
“A must-see documentary”
IndieWire