No Other Land (B. Adra, H. Ballal, Y. Abraham, R. Szor, 2024) | [Registration required]

Schedule

Thu, 20 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm

Location

Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University | Durham, NC

RIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! film series presents:
NO OTHER LAND
(Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, 2024 95 min, Palestine, Arabic, English, and Hebrew w/English subtitles, DCP)
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Registration required for this event: [ https://tickets.duke.edu/Online/article/nootherland ]
Parking Info: Free visitor parking is available in the Campus Drive lot, located at the corner of Campus Drive and Anderson Street, directly across the street from the Arts Center.
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This eye-opening, vérité-style documentary, made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years, provides a harrowing account of the systematic onslaught of destruction experienced by Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank, at the hands of the Israeli military. Headed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham (also two of the film’s directors), the collective commits itself to filming and protesting the demolitions of homes and schools and the resulting displacement of their inhabitants, which were carried out to make way for Israeli military training ground. In addition to the indelible footage of destruction and expulsion captured by its undaunted witnesses, NO OTHER LAND serves as a moving portrait of friendship between Adra and Abraham, who form a philosophical and political alliance despite the drastic differences in their abilities to exist freely in this world.
-- Panel Discussion to follow with Palestinian filmmaker/Duke instructor Hareth Yousef and Prof. Rebecca Stein (Cultural Anthropology)
-- 2025 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature
-- Winner of the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival
“NO OTHER LAND, while maintaining a tight focus on the fate of one village and on the bond between two men on either side of the Israel-Palestine divide, also situates these intimate stories within a wider context of history, world politics, and media representations, elements that Adra sums up in one word: “power.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker
"Given the conditions of its production, NO OTHER LAND would be vital even in a more ragged form. But the filmmaking here is tight and considered, with nimble editing (by the directors themselves) that captures the sense of time at once passing and looping back on itself." – Guy Lodge, Variety
Sponsored by the Duke Human Rights Center @ FHI, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke Cinematic Arts, Duke University Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC), Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Provost's Office, Student Affairs.
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Event URL: https://cinematicarts.duke.edu/screensociety/screenings/no-other-land-b-adra-h-ballal-y-abraham-r-szor-2024-registration-required
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Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, 2022 Campus Dr, Durham, NC 27708-9940, United States,Durham, North Carolina

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