#basel adra

[gael-garcia]

No Other Land (2024 🇵🇸 Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor)

[oldfilmsflicker]

ON OUR LAND, 1983 (dir. Antonia Caccia)

NO OTHER LAND, 2024 (dir. Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor)

[sacredwhores]

Basel Adra & Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor & Yuval Abraham - No Other Land (2024)

[swanasource]

SWANA people and projects nominated for Oscars in 2025

[lostinmac]

No Other Land (2024)

Dir. Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor

[disarmluna]

[never-sated]

I took an extra long weekend so it was a two film day with an opera in between. It was quite the odd run for the day, in theme and mood.

I should have watched No Other Land much sooner, regardless of how difficult a watch it was. Il barbiere di Siviglia was my first Italian opera and I don't know that it's gone a long way toward increasing my interest but I will persevere, at least for a few more attempts. The General was Buster Keaton physical comedy based on a true Civil War story, except he represented the south so I don't quite know what to do with that.

[haverwood]

No Other Land Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra Occupied Palestinian Territory/Norway, 2024 ★★★★ You watch something like this and then feel exhausted, completely drained of energy and hope and anything else, and then it hits you that you just watched a 90 minute snapshot of a story that's been going on for decades and will probably continue for a few more decades or so, and you know what? you shouldn't dare to write anything here because you're just another outsider looking in from the comfort of home, in a somewhat irenic, nonbelligerent patch of land.

All I can do is sit here for a while, give this whole thing a thought or two, and maybe hope to get to see in my lifetime something like Bibi's head on a spike. We can only hope.