No Other Land Documentary Screening

Name: No Other Land Documentary Screening
Start: 2025-04-12T13:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-12T16:30:00-05:00
Location: Peoria Public Library Main Library

Schedule

Sat Apr 12 2025 at 01:30 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Peoria Public Library Main Library | Peoria, IL

Agitation Rising & Peoria for Palestine are proud to screen the Academy Award Winning Best Documentary "No Other Land". Despite winning an Oscar, the documentary has been blacklisted by major theater distributors in the U.S. Don't miss this rare chance to see this important movie!
Place: Peoria Public Library, Main Branch LL2 Auditorium
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: Doors open at 1:30PM | Movie starts at 2PM | Q&A session after.
This event is free & open to the public.
Content Warning: Ethnic cleansing | VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED
Film description:
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.
DIRECTORS’ STATEMENT
We’re making this film together, a Palestinian-Israeli group of activists and filmmakers, because we want to stop the ongoing expulsion of the community of Masafer Yatta, and resist the reality of Apartheid we were born into - from opposite, unequal sides. Reality around us is becoming scarier, more violent, more oppressive, every day - and we are very weak in front of it. We can only shout out something radically different, this film - which at its core, is a proposal for an alternate way Israelis and Palestinians can live in this land - not as oppressor and oppressed, but in full equality.