No Other Land Friday, May 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM ADT
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One of the most urgent films of the year and winner of the 2025 Academy Award for Best Documentary,
No Other Land
offers an essential and unflinching look at life under Israeli military occupation.
Synopsis:
Basel Adra has been documenting the expulsion and decimation of his community in the small mountain village of Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank since childhood. Adra’s early memories as a child are plagued with images of Israeli soldiers raiding his home, witnessing his father Nasser, a Palestinian activist, being arrested, and the ongoing Israeli military occupation and settler aggression. By picking up his camera, Adra continually speaks truth to power as he tirelessly documents his reality: impending forced removals, bulldozers destroying homes, and the violence that inevitably follows. The film takes place prior to October 7, 2023, when attention to the region was in shorter supply.
During Adra’s fight to preserve his mountain village community, he forms an unexpected friendship and alliance with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who joins his resistance efforts. It is clear this bond is not one grounded in equity, with Adra living under occupation and Abraham’s freedom of movement. Yet the relationship that develops between the two — showing deep care, humanity, and above all how solidarity can break down barriers, even during occupation — is at the heart of this piece.
Made under extreme duress and unimaginable production hardships, this film comes from a Palestinian-Israeli activist collective formed of Adra, Abraham, Rachel Szor, and Hamdan Ballal. For its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, No Other Land earned the top documentary jury and audience prizes in the prestigious Panorama section. This film would stand out in any year, but now it feels even more urgent.
No Other Land has a 100% Fresh rating on rottentomatoes.com with critics raving:
“Intense and moving, No Other Land is a testament to the power of solidarity and friendship across borders and an expression of what is possible in a politically oriented cinematic work, the existence of which is an act of necessary bravery and courage .”
- Spectrum Culture
Watch the Trailer
Tickets:
Adult $12 plus taxes & fees = $15.96
Youth (Under 20) $8 plus taxes & fees = $11.40
Rated: PG (Real-life violence and brutality, gunfire, destruction, accident trauma, mature themes. The topics addressed in this film may inspire strong emotional responses.)
Genre: Documentary
Run Time: 1 hr 35min
Language: Arabic, Hebrew and English with subtitles
Synopsis:
Basel Adra has been documenting the expulsion and decimation of his community in the small mountain village of Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank since childhood. Adra’s early memories as a child are plagued with images of Israeli soldiers raiding his home, witnessing his father Nasser, a Palestinian activist, being arrested, and the ongoing Israeli military occupation and settler aggression. By picking up his camera, Adra continually speaks truth to power as he tirelessly documents his reality: impending forced removals, bulldozers destroying homes, and the violence that inevitably follows. The film takes place prior to October 7, 2023, when attention to the region was in shorter supply.
During Adra’s fight to preserve his mountain village community, he forms an unexpected friendship and alliance with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who joins his resistance efforts. It is clear this bond is not one grounded in equity, with Adra living under occupation and Abraham’s freedom of movement. Yet the relationship that develops between the two — showing deep care, humanity, and above all how solidarity can break down barriers, even during occupation — is at the heart of this piece.
Made under extreme duress and unimaginable production hardships, this film comes from a Palestinian-Israeli activist collective formed of Adra, Abraham, Rachel Szor, and Hamdan Ballal. For its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, No Other Land earned the top documentary jury and audience prizes in the prestigious Panorama section. This film would stand out in any year, but now it feels even more urgent.
No Other Land has a 100% Fresh rating on rottentomatoes.com with critics raving:
“Intense and moving, No Other Land is a testament to the power of solidarity and friendship across borders and an expression of what is possible in a politically oriented cinematic work, the existence of which is an act of necessary bravery and courage .”
- Spectrum Culture
Watch the Trailer
Tickets:
Adult $12 plus taxes & fees = $15.96
Youth (Under 20) $8 plus taxes & fees = $11.40
Rated: PG (Real-life violence and brutality, gunfire, destruction, accident trauma, mature themes. The topics addressed in this film may inspire strong emotional responses.)
Genre: Documentary
Run Time: 1 hr 35min
Language: Arabic, Hebrew and English with subtitles
Venue
Chester Playhouse
22 Pleasant Street
Chester
NS
B0J 1J0