No Other Land with Q&A

2025 Oscar Award winner for Best Documentary

Thursday 19th June at 7pm for doors open, 7.30pm film starts. Q&A to follow with guest speaker, academic, journalist and author Dr Andreas Hackl (senior lecturer in Anthropology of Development at Edinburgh University)

WHERE

North Berwick Community Centre, Main Hall, 8 Law Road, North Berwick, EH39 4PN

Cert 15. Click to be taken to BBFC website for rating information.

Director(s) Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor

Production Year 2024

Genre(s) Documentary

Approx. running minutes 92m

Cast n/a

Click here to be taken to the Guardian Review of No Other Land

Movie Info Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community by Israel’s occupation since childhood. He documents the slow-motion eradication of the villages in his home region where soldiers deployed by the Israeli government are gradually demolishing houses and driving out their residents. At some point, he meets Yuval, an Israeli journalist, who supports him in his efforts. An unlikely alliance develops. But the relationship between the two is strained by the enormous inequality between them: Basel lives under military occupation while Yuval lives freely and without restrictions.
This film by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists has been made as an act of creative resistance on the path to greater justice. (Berlinale Film Festival 2024)

Speaker Dr Andreas Hackl

Andreas is Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of Development at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. He has worked intensively in Israel/Palestine, both as an anthropologist and as a journalist. His anthropological research in this area included work on cross-border solidarity activists in civil resistance struggles, Palestinian labour mobility from the occupied West Bank into Israel, and Palestinian citizenship in Israel. His book The Invisible Palestinians explores the hidden reality of Palestinians in the Jewish Israeli city of Tel Aviv, who work, study, and live as an unseen minority without access to equal urban citizenship. As a journalist based in Jerusalem, Andreas also worked as a foreign correspondent for Austrian and Swiss newspapers and as a humanitarian reporter. More recently, though, most of his work has focused on a different topic: the role of a digital economy for the lives and livelihoods of refugees around the world.

WHEN

Thursday 19th June at 7pm for doors open, 7.30pm film starts