Dir. Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal
2024 | 96 mins | Occupied Palestinian Territory, Norway
Arabic with English subtitles

Showing Times

• Sat 04 Jan: 5.30pm
• Mon 06 Jan: 4pm
• Tue 07 Jan: 5.30pm

Filmed by media activists from both Israel and Palestine, this eloquent documentary captures the reality of a land struggle between resident Palestinians and the occupying Israeli forces seeking their expulsion.

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting the mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families – the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: asel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.

BBFC Rating

Rated 15 – strong real violence, threat, language