#basel adra

[oldfilmsflicker]

Since this film debuted at the Berlin Film Festival in February, where it won both the Panorama Audience Award and the Best Documentary Award, in this country we have seen an active service member self-immolate in protest of the U.S. Army's part in the genocide currently happening in Gaza. Despite the act being broadcast on livestream, the media misrepresented his intentions, and, in what seemed like minutes, the country moved on. In a world where video footage as a tool to speak truth to power seems to have lost its efficacy, No Other Land exists more as a form of resistance. As a form of witness. As proof of the Palestinian people's unwavering endurance, and as a document of their very existence.

[KVIFF Review] This is a Story of Power: "No Other Land"

[jackoshadows]

Palestinian & Israeli filmmakers, Basel Adra & Yuval Abraham, win for Best Documentary at Berlinale, for their film 'No Other Land' - about Israeli settler violence. They call for an end to the Occupation and apartheid & urge Germany to "stop sending weapons to Israel"

Yuval Abraham explains so concisely the nature of apartheid enforced in Israel and occupied Palestine.

" I want to say that we are standing in front of you, me and Basel are the same age. I am Israeli, Basel is Palestinian. And in two days we go back to a land where we are not equal. I am living under a civilian law and Basel is under military law. We live 30 minutes from one another, but I have voting rights and Basel does not have voting rights. I am free to move where I want in this land. Basel is like millions of Palestinians locked in occupied West Bank. This situation of apartheid between us, this inequality, it has to end. We ask, how we can make a change, to end the occupation, to move for a political solution. We don't really have an answer but we want for people to really stand up. There is a lot of powerful people in this room, a lot of ministers and people whose voices are heard. We need to call for a ceasefire. We need to call for a political solution to end the occupation."

Yuval Abraham is now getting death threats after Israeli TV called him an anti-semite!

The Berlinale film festival is being investigated for anti-semitism.

And the German ministery of culture wanted to emphasize how racist they are by releasing a statement that when "No Other Land" received a prize, green Minister Claudia Roth was only clapping for the Jewish-Israeli member of the filmmaking team and not the Palestinian.

Because apparently even applauding a Palestinian for winning an award is bad in Germany....

[agentfascinateur]

Berlin "more Catholic than the Pope", accusing a Jewish filmmaker of "antisemitism"!?!

#capsizing into ridiculousness

[fromkenari]

Have you heard about "No Other Land?"

[tieflingkisser]

Israeli filmmaker calls out apartheid, gets called antisemitic

[moogle159]

https://youtu.be/7AS6v3hC86Q?si=hUF71GWJQp9Hw1Pe

Above is the trailer for 'No other land' the documentary referenced above, directed and written by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor.

Basel Adra (from the Palestinian village Masafer Yatta) has filmed the Israeli military forcing Palestians out of there homes since he was a child. Yuval Abraham is an Israeli journalist that supports him.

I am unable to find a way to watch this movie if anyone has a link to this please let me know!

[thomas-querqy]

"Voyage à Gaza" ("Journey into Gaza") réalisé par Piero Usberti (filmé en 2018)

"No other land", documentaire réalisé par Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham et Rachel Szor

On est sortis éprouvés de “No other land”, le documentaire au long cours de deux palestiniens et deux israéliens, dans les hameaux palestiniens de Masafer Yatta en Cisjordanie près d’Hébron, en « zone C » en vertu des accords d’Oslo, totalement contrôlée par les autorités israéliennes, et où continuent à proliférer les colonies israéliennes illégales.

Comme Yuval Abraham, le jeune journaliste israélien que l’on voit à l’écran avec le palestinien Basel Adra qui y vit, on savait ce qu’il se passait, mais avec le documentaire, ce qui fait la différence, c’est l’émotion qu’il transmet en nous faisant partager la vie de ces gens.

Depuis des décennies, les Israéliens, soldats et colons armés, rendent la vie infernale à ses habitants pour les contraindre à fuir et s’emparer de leurs terres, en venant régulièrement détruire leurs maisons, boucher les puits par des coulées de ciment, couper les canalisations, et parfois tuer ou rendre invalides d’un coup d’arme de guerre des victimes désarmées. En toute impunité. En 2022, après 20 ans de procédure, la Haute cour de justice a donné l'autorisation scélérate à l’armée de chasser cette communauté d’un millier de Palestiniens qui y vit depuis le début du XIXe siècle. Après l’attaque du Hamas du 7 octobre 2023, qui a détourné l’attention de la Cisjordanie, la situation a encore empirée avec la multiplication des raids punitifs des colons armés d’une violence inédite, celle des pogroms, qui ont contraint les habitants de six hameaux à s’enfuir.

Le régime d’apartheid y est manifeste, l’injustice criante, la Nakba finale est en train de survenir, et pendant ce temps la propagande israélienne est complaisamment relayée par les médias occidentaux, « propagande qui fabrique la fable selon laquelle tout ce qui se passe trouverait sa seule origine dans le 7 octobre 2023. Comme si les atrocités, insupportables, commises ce jour-là venaient de nulle part, étaient un jaillissement soudain et inexplicable de cruauté barbare. »

Le film est diffusé actuellement dans trois salles parisiennes et deux en banlieue. Espérons qu’Arte ou une chaine de service public prendront le relais !

[schroettner]

viennale 2024 #1: “no other land” by yuval abraham, basel adra, hamdan ballal, and rachel szor. very disturbing documentary about the occupied west bank's area masafer yatta by israeli soldiers and jewish settlers. apart from the moving images of the desperate inhabitants, the intimate talks between yuval abraham, and basel adra are reflecting the hopelessness and powerlessness of the palestinan people living there.

[thenerdsofcolor]

Titles to Watch For From the 44th Hawai'i International Film Festival

A content, unmotivated 29-year-old ignites a toxic relationship. The origin story of shaka. A glimpse at the life of the Ambassador of Aloha. A look at Israeli occupation in the West Bank of Palestine before October 7, 2023. Delinquent girls plot their escape from an abusive reform school. Three kids band together to climb up a mountain. Continue reading Titles to Watch For From the 44th Hawai’i…

[fnipoli]

[oldfilmsflicker]

I reviewed the harrowing and important Palestinian documentary NO OTHER LAND.

[tanadrin]

So two directors, and Israeli named Yuval Abraham and a Palestinian named Basel Adra, won a major prize at the Berlinale this year for their documentary on the destruction of Palestinian villages in the West Bank; as you might expect, their acceptance speech was not shy about criticizing Israeli apartheid. Naturally, this got roundly criticized in the German media as an anti-semitic speech (to add insult to absurdity, Abraham is descended from Holocaust survivors), and the Green Party culture minister was caught in the flack since she was seen clapping for them. She tried to smooth this over by saying she was clapping for the Israeli director, but not the Palestinian one.

This country hates Muslims so much it's unbelievable.

[pierreism]

No Other Land, 2024. dir. Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor

[disco-cola]

oh also at the berlinale the berlin film festival a documentary called "no other land" won which is an israeli-palestinian co-production about a man named basel adra in the occupied west bank and his life under apartheid. i'm very surprised they even let this one win in the first place tbh. anyway the israeli filmmaker and journalist yuval abraham who in his accepting speech criticized the apartheid and that even tho he and basel only live 30 minutes apart they both lead extremely different lives is now getting death threats. the berlin mayor, who is not jewish by the way, said what he said in his speech was "anti-semitic." a german non jewish politician called a jewish israeli man anti-semitic for calling for equal rights. yuval abraham sadly is part of a minority though and he is going back to israel tomorrow i think, i very much hope he will be safe after his return. israeli jews who have been outspoken about the oppression have fallen victims of their own society themselves way too many times. i dont know how many times i've said i cannot believe it but i simply really just cannot believe the absolute shit show this world is.

[fixy8ed4xys]

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A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.