No Other Land

Directors: Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Cast: Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Basel Adra 1h 35m, NR

Film is in English, Arabic, and Hebrew with English subtitles.

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 larges 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.

MAY 31: Join Rabbi Donna Kirshbaum of the Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation for a community conversation about the film following the 7:30PM screening on Saturday, May 31 moderated by Pastor Peter Ilgenfritz of the First Congregational Church of Littleton. Conversation will begin at approximately 9PM and is open to any ticket holder for any screening of the film, including those for upcoming screenings at The Colonial and previous screenings at Catamount Arts.

Rabbi Kirshbaum is beginning her 7th year as rabbi of Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation and has recently begun a part-time chaplaincy internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She continues to be active in Jewish Women International’s Clergy Task Force on Domestic Abuse. While living in Israel for a decade, she helped establish the movement Women Wage Peace which, along with its Palestinian counterpart Women of the Sun, has been officially nominated for the 2024 and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.