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.
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
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TICKETS:
Friday, May 2nd at 7:00 PM
Adult – $12 plus taxes & fees = $16.10
Youth (under 20) – $8 plus taxes & fees = $11.50
General Admission
Rating: PG – Content advisory: real-life violence and brutality, gunfire, destruction, accident trauma, mature themes. The topics addressed in this film may inspire strong emotional responses.
Run Time: 95 min
Genre: Documentary Film
Language: Arabic, Hebrew, English with English subtitles.
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