No Other Land

Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank has been designated a military “firing zone” by the Israeli government since the 1980s, and its Palestinian residents ruled to be living there unlawfully — the beginning of a long struggle against intimidation, forced displacement and demolition. Basel, a young Palestinian resident, follows his father into activism and citizen journalism. He becomes friends with the Israeli journalist Yuval, and the two use the camera as resistance, filming the everyday violence of the Israeli army towards Palestinian civilians and the fragility and endurance within the struggle. As the violence escalates, despair, powerlessness and depression settle over them, and they begin to doubt the act of recording itself.

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