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‘No Other Land’ Review: A Frank, Devastating Protest Against Israel’s West Bank Occupation
In 'No Other Land,' Palestinian activist Basel Adra teams with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham to chronicle the despair of the displaced.
Beginning in the summer of 2019, the film divides itself into season-based chapters that illustrate both the relentlessness of the Israeli army’s offensive on Masafer Yatta — consistently thwarting villagers’ attempts to build back what has been destroyed — and its erosive effect on Adra’s spirit, not to mention that of his community as a whole. Looking on as bulldozers pile into homes, livestock pens and even pigeon coops, making way for a proposed Israeli tank training base, the five-years-younger Adra expresses hope that residents’ on-the-ground resistance will capture the attention of major world powers, and pressure Israel into desisting. The filmmakers track Abu Aran’s deteriorating condition over the next two years, as he and his stricken mother find makeshift refuge in a cave, while she wearies of the international reporters who visit to document their tragedy, while yielding nothing in the way of change or relief.
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