“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.” (Synopsis at Berlinale 2024)
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Yuval Abraham is a Jewish-Israeli journalist of Israeli-Palestinian online magazine +972 Magazine (named after the area code for the whole of Israel-Palestine). Many of his ancestors were killed during the holocaust. His grandmother was born in an Italian concentration camp in Libya.
Basel Adra is a Palestinian journalist from Hebron.
Rachel Szor is an Israeli filmmaker from Jerusalem.
Hamdan Ballal is a Palestinian filmmaker from Susya on the West Bank. In March 2025, three weeks after the Academy Awards ceremony, Ballal was brutally attacked trying to document settlers’ assault on the house of a neighbour. Immediately after that, although severely injured, Ballal was arrested by Israeli soldiers. It wasn’t until the next day that he was released and taken to a hospital. Numerous filmmakers from around the globe have declared their solidarity with Ballal.
Palestine/Norway, 92 min., OV with German subtitles
Berlinale Documentary Award 2024, Best Documentary Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards 2025, numerous other recognitions
