#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....

[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!

[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

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[fnipoli]

[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.

[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.

[oldfilmsflicker]

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

[because--palestine]

Is the New York Times losing its credibility on Israel-Palestine?

In December 2023, The New York Times published an explosive article - now widely discredited - that detailed Hamas’s agenda to weaponise rape and sexual violence on October 7. The controversies surrounding the article are revealed along with the broader issue of Western media outlets’ pro-Israeli/anti-Palestinian bias.

Germany’s toxic debate on Gaza

After they won an award at the Berlinale film festival, the reaction to a speech by filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra has become the latest example of Germany’s toxic debate on Gaza.

Genocide in Gaza through the eyes of Israeli soldiers

For months, Israeli soldiers in Gaza have been documenting their own war crimes against Palestinians and sharing them on social media. Three experts on human rights and torture examine the material.

[drsonnet]

The #Berlinale Documentary Award goes to “No Other Land” by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor.

The Palestinian Basel Adra and the Israeli Yuval Abraham, two friends, were honored at the German film awards ceremony Berlinale for their documentary “No Other Land” about the destruction of a Palestinian village. They used the opportunity to clearly criticize Germany's support for Israeli crimes.

#stoparmingisrael. #caesefirenow.

The German media is going crazy because there was applause for it.

Mayor of Berlin is angry and (as usual) accused them with (Antisemitism)!!!

#stoparmingisrael. #caesefirenow.

Semite: The term therefore came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, Hebrews, some Ethiopians (including the Amhara and the Tigrayans), and Aramaean tribes. 

Semite | Definition, Peoples, & Facts | Britannica

مسافر..مسافر يطا ..Masafer Yatta.. מסאפר יטא

Masafer Yatta - Wikipedia

[the-queerview]

Dahomey, 2024

by Mati Diop

I know its been a while my dear readers, I was again in a hole, binge watching k drama and oh yeah the Berlinale happened. Unfortunately the Berlinale fucked up twice, first by inviting the AFD- Nazi Party to the Filmfestival and a second time by fascist treatment of a the Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra after their film 'No Other Land' won the a price for the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film... WHHHHHYYYYY Germany so disappointing. So yeah I was digging myself under my blanket or working in the library with a friend on my non existent art practice, but I made it to one film at the Berlinale. As a low budget filmmaker myself, I know how hard it is for filmmakers to get funding or places, where their films are shown, so I feel for those ones, who were selected, since its an international film festival and to quote here one my old philosophy professors: more language means more world. I wanna see and learn and cherish and cry and be angry and devastated and touched. the world of film is sharing ideas trough images. And its a dangerous but also precious gift.

Anyways, we start with a documentary I saw there by Mati Diop, titled " Dahomey". Mati Diop won as the first african female director the grand price at Cannes for her Film "Atlantique" in 2019. The film has actually 3 entities. It's a documentary showing the return of 26 Benin bronce treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey to Benin. The first entity is the ghosts Voice of the treasure, they are speaking to us, to the audience, sharing their thoughts and their disconnect to their homecountry as well as their transportation back. The voice is written and spoken by Makenzy Orcel, a haitian writer. The transportation to their The second entity is the bureaucratic reality. we see the art historians and their helpers, checking and packing the works for the transportation by plane from France. We see how cautious they are and tbh I got scared for the works and would probably shit my pants, If I was responsible for taking care of this important treasure. one of my favorite scenes was when the chef of the return operation put a little fine string on a details of the benin sculpture for the transport. The little Detail. The third entity is the arrival in Abomey, Benin and the building of a museum for the works, which is also accompanied by student meetings, where they discuss what this return means and how come from the 7000 stolen treasures only 26 get back, and how do you deal with something that was stolen from you and suddenly comes back partly, how does artworks that also serve a religious purpose and become part of your identification with a place or a nation affect you? Also what does it mean to learn about french art history but not about your own, since it was stolen by colonizers? Those are just examples, the conversations went on.

There were moments, when Mati Diop showed the very intimate moment, like the first time, visitors could see the treasures in the new museum and their reaction. The first night of the sculptures is accompanied by the ghost voice of them talking again to us in the Museum and their reflection on it.

What I liked about the film is, that you as a viewer, are enganged in a conversation, you listen to the sculpture and therefor in this film, the sculpture becomes a real person, with feelings and fear and depth, you also listen to the human world, you observe what they are doing, and you observe how they talk about you, what they feel when they look at you. Therefor I consider this film genius so longer I think about it. Its a documentary but its magical. The film was not made in the perspective for us, the film is made out of the perspective of the ghost of the sculptures, looking into their future and in our present.

I barely know stuff about yorubian folktales, but I read once this amazing book by nigerian novelist Amos Tutuola "my life in the bush of ghosts", where he was inspired by yorubian folktales he grew up in, and some of the ghosts there, there are a looot of ghosts in the book, that have this animal heads, and when I saw the Benin treasures in the film, of the kings, with the animal heads and I thought about the ghosts in the book, I was very touched, since they also say in the film: The heads of the sculptures are depicted as one of the animals. you become a sculpture when you die, but you are not allowed to see it. when you lived a good life, they will make a sculpture of you, but you cant see it, or you will be cursed.

Besides I really recommend you guys to read at some point in your life " my life in the bush of ghosts", if you are interested of course.

I don't wanna spoiler to hard here, since the film will be released in theaters in September, but I highly recommend you to go and see it in a cinema, not at home, if its possible for you and affordable in any way, I know many people having a hard time rn.

Also this is my personal opinion, but yeah this world will be cursed forever, if all the countries wont get back their stolen treasures and art. Also Reparation payments must be done basically for eternity. I hope some important asshole watched the film and will realize that even if you were not alive when the bad things happen, if you are in a power position and have access to make decision, recognize your responsibility to create acts of apology and give the stolen things back and support.

in this words,

take care my readers

<3

the queerview

[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.