No Other Land I Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Artuval Abraham and Rachel Szor I Palestine / Norway I 2024 I 95 min I Slovenian subtitles
Palestinian activist Basel Adra has been filming Israeli occupiers destroying villages in his home region of the Masafer Contactatta for several years. As he struggles to preserve his community, he weaves an unexpected alliance with Israeli journalist, <url> Abraham. In the final part of the film, when we see Israeli soldiers protecting construction workers filling a village well with concrete, it is finally clear that the Israeli state in the West Bank is practicing apartheid on Palestinians. The award-winning film Only Earth, which reveals the ruthless actions of the Israeli army and the state, is an invaluable document of the present time and one of the most urgent films of the moment.
"The Film was made jointly by Palestinian and Israeli activists and filmmakers. We wanted to stop the forced exodus of the people living in the Masafer 6catta region and resist the apartheid reality into which we – on opposite, unequal sides – were born. The reality around us is becoming more and more frightening, violent and cruel every day, and we feel more and more helpless in the face of it. It remains only to shout something radically different: to create a film, which is actually a proposal for how the Israelis and Palestinians could live differently in this territory – not as oppressors and oppressed, but as completely equal.«
- Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Moduval Abraham and Rachel Szor (directors of the film)
"In addition to a document about material destruction and displacement, the Film is also a record of psychological war, about attempts to destroy morality, suppress power, break the will. This, combined with the physical violence he records, gives him tremendous moral authority.«
- Richard Brod / / The NE / / / / / / / / / / /
The screening will be preceded by a brief introduction.
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No Other Land I Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham in Rachel Szor I Palestina/Norveška I 2024 I 95 min I slovenski podnapisi
Palestinski aktivist Basel Adra že več let snema, kako izraelski okupatorji uničujejo vasi v njegovi domači regiji Masafer Yatta. Med bojem za ohranitev svoje skupnosti splete nepričakovano zavezništvo z izraelskim novinarjem Yuvalom Abrahamom. Ko v sklepnem delu filma zagledamo izraelske vojake, kako ščitijo gradbene delavce, ki z betonom polnijo vaški vodnjak, je dokončno jasno, da izraelska država na Zahodnem bregu nad Palestinci izvaja apartheid. Večkrat nagrajeni film Edina zemlja, ki razkriva brezobzirna dejanja izraelske vojske in države je neprecenljiv dokument sedanjega časa in eden najbolj nujnih filmov ta hip.
»Film smo skupaj posneli palestinski in izraelski aktivisti ter filmski ustvarjalci. Želeli smo ustaviti prisilno izseljevanje ljudi, živečih v regiji Masafer Yatta, in se upreti realnosti apartheida, v katero smo se – na nasprotnih, neenakih straneh – rodili. Stvarnost okoli nas postaja vsak dan bolj strašljiva, nasilna in kruta, mi pa se vpričo nje počutimo vse bolj nemočne. Ostane nam le, da zakričimo nekaj radikalno drugačnega: ustvarimo film, ki je pravzaprav predlog, kako bi lahko Izraelci in Palestinci na tem ozemlju zaživeli drugače – ne kot zatiralci in zatirani, pač pa kot povsem enakopravni.«
– Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham in Rachel Szor (režiserji filma)
»Film je poleg dokumenta o gmotnem uničenju in razseljevanju tudi zapis o psihološki vojni, o poskusih uničenja morale, zatrtja moči, zloma volje. To mu skupaj s fizičnim nasiljem, ki ga beleži, daje ogromno moralno avtoriteto.«
– Richard Brody (The New Yorker)
Pred projekcijo bo kratek uvod.
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