CinemaSavannah Presents NO OTHER LAND (Palestine/Norway, 2024)
Schedule
Thu Mar 13 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Savannah Culture Arts Center | Savannah, GA
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Hello to Everyone,I have decided to push the screening of VERMIGLIO to end of March or beginning of April to make room for a special one-time screening of NO OTHER LAND, this past Sunday's Oscar winner for Best Documentary Film. The film has no official US distributor, but thanks to my extensive contacts, I was able to book it for March 13. Since, for now, you can watch it only overseas (i.e. mostly Europe), our screening is bound to attract lots of interest in our area. Here is the detailed info about the film:
CINEMASAVANNAH
Savannah Cultural Arts Center
201 Montgomery Street
Box office opens at 6. Films start at 7 PM , tix are $10, cash preferred
March 13 (Thursday) 7PM
NO OTHER LAND (Palestine/Norway, 2024)
ONE-TIME SCREENING!
Brought to you by CinemaSavannah -- the special screening of this year’s Oscar winner for Best Documentary. Despite being released and acclaimed in all western countries, NO OTHER LAND could not find and still doesn't have an official U.S. distributor due to its subject matter (Israeli apartheid in the West Bank).
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.
Synopsis:
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families - the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice. In Arabic & Hebrew & English with English subtitles. 96 minutes.
Note: two days after No Other Land was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Israeli settlers invaded Masafer Yatta, burning and breaking homes.
From the director:
“Our film is the first documentary to shed light on the systematic policy of forced expulsion through home demolitions.
When homes are destroyed, families in Masafer Yatta have nowhere to go, they can either rebuild, become homeless, or rent houses in crowded Palestinian cities where there is no space for grazing sheep and cultivating land. The loss of land is thus a loss of community and a way of life - they stop working as farmers.
Since October 7th, the situation in the West Bank has dramatically deteriorated: "extreme" settlers used violence to evict 16 entire Palestinian villages all over the West Bank.”
WINNER OF OVER 50 MAJOR AWARDS INTERNATIONALLY INCLUDING:
WINNER: Best Documentary Feature - Gotham Awards
WINNER: Best European Documentary - European Film Awards
WINNER: Berlinale Documentary Award - Berlin International Film Festival
WINNER: Panorama Audience Award - Berlin International Film Festival
WINNER: Best Documentary Feature - IDA Documentary Awards
WINNER: Best Director - IDA Documentary Awards
WINNER: Courage Under Fire Award - IDA Documentary Awards
WINNER: Best Nonfiction Film - National Society of Film Critics
WINNER: Best Non-Fiction Film - New York Film Critics Circle
WINNER: Best Documentary - LA Film Critics Circle
WINNER: Best Documentary - London Film Critics Circle
WINNER: Best Documentary - Boston Society of Film Critics
WINNER: Best Documentary - Chicago Film Critics Association
WINNER: Best Documentary - Palm Springs International Film Festival
WINNER: Best Documentary - Asia Pacific Screen Awards
WINNER: NPO Doc IDFA Audience Award - IDFA 2024
NOMINEE: Best Documentary Film - BAFTA Film Awards
WINNER: Best Documentary - Independent Spirit Awards
“As an act of citizen journalism, it’s a document as damning as they come, and it lands in this endless, bitterly complex struggle like an argument that refuses to be rationalized away.“ Washington Post
“No Other Land is a piece of resistance but also humanization.” Associated Press
“An audacious and devastating film” The New York Times
“If anything can be described as essential viewing, it’s this stark and unflinching account of life on the ground in a contested region of the West Bank.” Observer (UK)
“No Other Land is an act of bearing witness to the “shadows no one’s attending to.” RogerEbert.com
“The footage is out there, and it’s rarely been assembled into a more concise, powerful, and damning array than it is here. Now it only has to be seen.” IndieWire
“A documentary that is particularly urgent and eye-opening in the context of the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Screen International
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Where is it happening?
Savannah Culture Arts Center, 201 Montgomery St.,Savannah, Georgia, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
