No Other Land
May 10 @ 7:00 pm– 9:30 pm EDT
Saturday, May 10, 4 pm and 7 pm
at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (map)
Doors open at 6:45 pm. Registration highly recommended; click here to register.
Both screenings are now sold out.
This free screening (92 minutes) will be followed by a discussion lead by LOLA and Jewish Voice for Peace Buffalo.
A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activist/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary. Over a period of five years (2019–23), Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra shoots video of home, school, water well, and road demolitions (legalized by the area’s conversion to an IDF training zone) and their consequent protests by displaced residents. Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham — free to move about while Adra’s movements are constricted — takes this nonviolent fight to a wider platform. The two form a complicated friendship and hopeful partnership in their efforts to resist a government-sanctioned mass eviction.
Presented in partnership with Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, LOLA, Jewish Voice for Peace Buffalo, and Buffalo Int’l Film Festival.
Further reading
Basel Adra, Our film is going to the Oscars. But here in Masafer Yatta, we’re still being erased, +972 Magazine, February 10, 2025
Anthony Kaufman, No Other Distribution: How Film Industry Economics and Politics Are Suppressing Docs Sympathetic to Palestine and Critical of Israel, Documentary Magazine, January 15 2025
Mary Turfah, “No Other Land” for Whom?, Mubi Notebook, February 11 2025
