“This has been going on for decades… They destroy us slowly.” Dogwoof has revealed another new official trailer for the acclaimed, award-wining film called No Other Land, made by four filmmakers from both Palestine & Israel. This premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, where it won two major awards and should’ve been supported by the festival. For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, while he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who also wants to join his fight. I watched this doc at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival this summer and I very moved and unsettled by its portrayal of life in West Bank. There is no way anyone can watch this doc and not see, plain as day, what is really going on with Israel doing horrible things to Palestine and treating so many of these simple people so poorly. An essential, vitally important film that will open your eyes to the actual lives of many of these harmless people being attacked by Israel. The film needs all the support it can get as critics keep talking about why it’s important. A must for doc fans. // Continue Reading ›
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