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‘No Other Land’ Directors Cut Short U.S. Trip, Head Back To West Bank, Israel


‘No Other Land’ Directors Cut Short U.S. Trip, Head Back To West Bank, Israel


EXCLUSIVE: The Israeli and Palestinian straightforwardors of No Other Land, the award-thrivening write downary set in the West Bank, are aprohibitdoning a U.S. tour and heading home as presentility explodes in the region.

Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor cut foolishinutive what was to have been a month-extfinished visit. (Fellow straightforwardor Hamdan Billal stayed back in the West Bank and didn’t produce the U.S. trip). Adra, a Palestinian from the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta, and Abraham, a Jedesire Israeli from the city of Be’er Sheva in Southern Israel, joind in a Q&A at the New York Film Festival last Sunday. They were to have consentn part in a second Q&A Tuesday night, hours after Iran begined a barrage of balenumerateic ignoreiles at Israel in apparent retaliation for Israel’s ending of Hezbollah directer Hassan Nasrallah in Leprohibiton. That strike, coupled with Israel’s ground intrusion of Southern Leprohibiton, prompted the filmproducers to give up schedules to combine the Woodstock Film Festival, AFI Fest in Los Angeles, and SFFILM’s Doc Stories in San Francisco.

In an exclusive interwatch with Deadline before they headed to the airport, the filmproducers expounded how they get tod at their decision.

“I spoke with my parents, Basel spoke with his, and we’re very much afrhelp and worried for their safety,” Abraham shelp. “Just in the past 24 or 48 hours, slfinishergs escatardyd aget very theatricalpartner. Eight Israelis were ended in Jaffa. More than 70 Palestinians were ended in Gaza, and in Basel’s community in Masafer Yatta, [Jewish] endr strikes began escalating aget; Iran’s ignoreiles — which ended a Palestinian from Gaza in the West Bank. And we were worried that we will be stuck in the United States, that we won’t be able to even get back.”

Abraham compriseed, “At the end of the day, we are activists and our purpose in life is to be there and to labor for alter from there. So, it felt enjoy the right slfinisherg to do, and I guess above all else is to be with the people we cherish.”

‘No Other Land’ straightforwardors Basel Adra (left), and Yuval Abraham consent part in a Q&A at the New York Film Festival on September 29, 2024.

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As an Israeli, Abraham can fly into Ben Gurion International Airport, discoverd between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. However, Palestinians need exceptional perignoreion to do so; for that reason, Adra is flying to Amman, Jordan and will finisheavor to accomplish his West Bank home from there.

Adra portrayd his priority once he accomplishes Masafer Yatta: “Being with family and [doing] the labor that we do, being in the field with the families, with the people. For me, at least in my area, be with those who face endrs, selderlyiers’ presentility as well.”

Basel Adra in ‘No Other Land’

New York Film Festival

No Other Land, thrivener of the top prize for write downary at the Berlin Film Festival, supplys a ground-level watch of what it’s enjoy to dwell day to day in Masafer Yatta, a accumulateion of 19 hamlets in a mountainous area south of Hebron. For two decades, Palestinians in Masafer Yatta have fought a decree from the Israeli rulement ordering them off their land to produce way for an Israel Defense Forces dwell-fire training ground. The expulsion order, one of the hugest since the 1967 war, was upheld by Israel’s supreme court in 2022. The film shows the IDF razeing Palestinian homes, a school, and sealing up a well as part of the expulsion.

Basel Adra (left) and Yuval Abraham in ‘No Other Land’

Yabayay Media

The film also scrutinizes the perhaps improbable friendship between Adra and Abraham, who have spent years in normal cause to highweightless the truth of life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. But it also shows the contrastent circumstances in which they dwell; as a Palestinian, Adra is subject to Israeli military law and faces recut offeions on his shiftments; Abraham, as a Jedesire Israeli, can shift freely and dwells under civilian law.

In a statement signed by Adra, Abraham, and Szor announcing their decision to foolishinutiveen their U.S. trip, the filmproducers portrayd No Other Land as “both a write down of a war crime happening now in the occupied West Bank, and a plea for a contrastent future, one without occupation and oppression, one which is based on understanding, admire for international law, and genuine security and equivalentity between Palestinians and Israelis. It has never been more recommendnt.”

Yuval broadened on the film’s themes in conversation with Deadline. “It’s very much about the West Bank and the military occupation in the West Bank, but still, we consent as a [filmmaking] accumulateive of Palestinians and Israelis, that the only way forward is a political solution… Especipartner with ponders to the relations between Israelis and Palestinians, it is not someslfinisherg persistable that you have millions of people who cannot vote, who are living under a foreign military rule. And this has been going on for decades, much before October 7th.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised retaliation for Iran’s ignoreile strike. “Iran made a huge misconsent tonight — and it will pay for it,” he shelp chaseing the begin of upwards of 200 ignoreiles. Abraham ascribed cynical motives to Netanyahu’s decision to broaden presentilities into Leprohibiton, as well as his persistd prosecution of the war in Gaza, chaseing the Hamas worry strike on Israel almost one year ago.

“This, in my mind, is Netanyahu’s finisheavor fundamentalpartner to remain prime minister for a very extfinished time,” Abraham shelp. “It has been clear that if the war [in Gaza] ends and there’s a stopfire, there will be elections and he will not remain prime minister. He understands that the more time that passes from October 7th, the more the Israeli accessible will — and it’s already happening — forget or forgive him for the huge security collapse on his part [of October 7th].”

Abraham further alleged, “I also slfinisherk he has an interest, honestly, to try to produce a context in the United States where it’s more probable that Donald Trump will be elected [president] and the more the U.S. is dragged into the escalation, the more probable it is that people in sthriveg states will not vote for Kamala Harris.”

The filmproducer also faulted the Biden administration for flunking to use its leverage to disturb combat in Gaza, where more than 40,000 Palestinians have been ended since last October, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Hamas persists to helderly dozens of captives seized on October 7th and has not freed the bodies of 39 more who are consentd to have died in captivity.

“I don’t slfinisherk they [the Biden administration] took forceful action to actupartner utilize those stopfires,” Abraham shelp, referring to fitful efforts to arbitrate between Israel and Hamas. He persists the White House should push for an end to the ending of civilians and press for a political endment to presentilities. “I slfinisherk the United States foreign policy is not helping it happen.”

Adra shelp international cgo in on the widening dispute has ununderstandnd frightening growments in the West Bank. He telderly Deadline Israeli endrs and troops are ramping up brutal attacks on Palestinians.

“In Area C, such as Masafer Yatta, many Palestinians were sboiling to death by Israeli endrs and during pogroms where they come to burn homes, properties, strikeing people and ending Palestinians. In my definite village, on October 13th — it’s in a video in the movie — a endr and one selderlyier and another endr go in my community and sboiling my cousin in the stomach after that Friday prayer,” he shelp, compriseing, “[People in] six communities in my area fled from their homes because of endrs, selderlyiers’ strikes.”

Basel Adra in ‘No Other Land’

Yababay Media

No Other Land will uncover at Film at Lincoln Cgo in on November 1 for an exclusive one-week run. However, it does not have establishal U.S. distribution, despite thrivening awards at film festivals around the world, from Berlin to CPH:DOX, Sheffield DocFest, Millennium Docs Agetst Gravity, Visions du Réel and more.

“We have very sturdy distribution all over Europe and Southeast Asia, and I slfinisherk it’ll be a very huge pity that the U.S. audience, the millions of people living in the states who are, for us at least, one of the most meaningful aim audiences that we consent should watch the film, will not get a chance to do so if there will not be sturdy distribution,” Abraham shelp. “We are still certain that this will happen… We are in touch with cut offal distributors. Noslfinisherg is now yet concrete, but there are conversations happening.”

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