The people of Masafer Yatta are brave in the face of genocide. Their mountainous region, home of 20 ancient Palestinian villages on the West Bank, is being encroached upon. Homes and businesses are being demolished. The injustices they endure are being chronicled and archived by filmmakers in “No Other Land,” which recently received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary (Feature). One of the documentarians is Basel Adra, an observer/activist/writer who is part of this community and is cataloguing everything as his people are being forced into a nomadic life.
Over the course of five years, during an onslaught of intimidation and violence, the filmmaker team chronicled what they could. Andra’s friend and co-writer/director Yuval Abraham, an Israeli journalist, is with him every step of the way, on camera and off. Rachel Szor, an Israeli cinematographer/editor/director, along with Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian photographer/filmmaker, are the two other members of this…
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