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Filmed between 2019 and 2023 in the West Bank, the documentary co-signed by an Israeli-Palestinian quartet recounts the courageous resistance of the inhabitants of Masafer Yatta, stifled by the colonization of the Hebrew state.
“They make us foreigners in our own country.” The residents of Masafer Yatta have been struggling for decades, under constant pressure from the Israeli army and settlers established on the heights of the commune, to stay in their homes and on their land. It is in this Palestinian village, a group of hamlets not far from Hebron, in the West Bank (“this piece of land which does not even have the name of a country”, as the writer Karim Kattan calls it in the Palace of the Two Hills), a place declared a “military training zone” by Israel in 1980 with the aim of expelling those living there, where Basel Adra, one of the authors and main characters of No Other Land. He is 23 years old at the start of the film, shot between 2019 and 2023 and co-signed by four people forming a collective: Basel Adra, the activist Hamdan Ballal, who also lives in the village, and two Israelis, the director Rachel Szor and the journalist Yuval Abraham , another central figure in the film.
Because very quickly in No Other LandBasel Adra and Yuval Abraham become Basel and Yuval, documentary characters: it is the story of their meeting, their friendship and their alliance, against a backdrop of the resistance of the local inhabitants. They are the same age, the same desire for happiness and justice, but neither the same rights
