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‘You’re Not Thinking About the Film. You’re Filming to Survive.’
No Other Land’s directors were chased down and held at gunpoint while capturing horrific attacks on Palestinians. For them, an Oscar’s not the point.
After the Israeli Supreme Court ordered the eviction of 1,000 Palestinians from Masafer Yatta so that Israel could annex the land as a military training base, he began filming the soldiers’ destruction of homes, attacks on civilians, and aid to illegal settlers enacting similar violence. There are a lot of shocking and demoralizing moments in No Other Land, from an Israeli soldier shooting and paralyzing a villager whose family is then forced to live in a cave because their home has been destroyed, to Adra and Abraham running from groups of masked settlers after recording their ambushes. The documentary arrives at a time when Doctors Without Borders and various arms of the United Nations, including the UNRWA and the Human Rights Office, have issued warnings about the increased rate of Israeli violence toward Palestinians in the West Bank and the surging death toll there after the January 19 Israel-Hamas cease-fire in Gaza.
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