No Other Land (B. Adra, H. Ballal, Y. Abraham, R. Szor, 2024) [*RESCHEDULED*]

Location: Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater

**RESCHEDULED SCREENING**

 (This event was originally planned to take place on February 20th, but had to be rescheduled due to weather. Note the earlier 4pm start time.)


No Other Land
(Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, 2024 95 min, Palestine, Arabic, English, and Hebrew w/English subtitles, DCP)


Registration required for this event:  [click here for registration page]
Any tickets held for the original screening, which was canceled due to severe weather last week, will be valid for this new date and time. For any ticket-holder who is able attend, no action is needed on your part. Seating will open around 3:30pm. 

If you are holding a ticket but can no longer attend, please release your ticket by sending an email to tickets@duke.edu.

Released tickets will be made available to claim on the registration page at 11:00AM on Wednesday, February 26th, while supplies last.
 

Parking Info: Free visitor parking is available in the Campus Drive lot, located at the corner of Campus Drive and Anderson Street, directly across the street from the Arts Center.


This eye-opening, vérité-style documentary, made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years, provides a harrowing account of the systematic onslaught of destruction experienced by Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank, at the hands of the Israeli military. Headed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham (also two of the film’s directors), the collective commits itself to filming and protesting the demolitions of homes and schools and the resulting displacement of their inhabitants, which were carried out to make way for Israeli military training ground. In addition to the indelible footage of destruction and expulsion captured by its undaunted witnesses, No Other Land serves as a moving portrait of friendship between Adra and Abraham, who form a philosophical and political alliance despite the drastic differences in their abilities to exist freely in this world. 

-- Panel Discussion to follow with Palestinian filmmaker/Duke instructor Hareth Yousef and Prof. Rebecca Stein (Cultural Anthropology)

-- 2025 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature
-- Winner of the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival

No Other Land, while maintaining a tight focus on the fate of one village and on the bond between two men on either side of the Israel-Palestine divide, also situates these intimate stories within a wider context of history, world politics, and media representations, elements that Adra sums up in one word: “power.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker

"Given the conditions of its production, No Other Land would be vital even in a more ragged form. But the filmmaking here is tight and considered, with nimble editing (by the directors themselves) that captures the sense of time at once passing and looping back on itself." – Guy Lodge, Variety


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Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public.

COVID-19 Info:https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/covid-19-information

 

A man lies on his side in a rocky field, touching the grass in a still from No Other Land.

Contact: Hank Okazaki

Email: hokazak@duke.edu

Sponsor: Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI's RIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! film series

Co-Sponsors: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Cinematic Arts, Duke University Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Provost's Office, Student Affairs