No Other Land + The Medallion + Discussion

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s 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: Basel, 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.

Directors

Basel Adra is a Palestinian lawyer, journalist and filmmaker from Masafer Yatta. He has been an activist and documentarian since 15, fighting against Israel’s mass expulsion of his community.

Rachel Szor is an Israeli cinematographer, editor, and director from Jerusalem.

Hamdan Ballal is a Palestinian photographer, filmmaker and farmer from Susya, and has worked as a researcher for several anti-occupation human rights groups.

Yuval Abraham is an Israeli filmmaker and investigative journalist from Jerusalem.

Ruth was a teenager when her mother passed down her Medallion; an emblem of her mother’s inconceivable plight; captured in middle school by the Derg communist military regime and raised in a prison camp. This story follows her early memories of the Derg Genocide and how she first became in possession of the medallion upon her escape. 

Director – Ruth Hunduma

Ruth Hunduma is an Ethiopian-Australian writer, director, photographer, actor and poet. She is the recipient of the John Hay Lobban Prize in English Literature from Birkbeck, University of London and has been featured in publications such as Dazed and Perfect Magazine. Ruth won the 2022 Roundhouse Film Fund as well as the 2022 BFI Short Documentary fund, to which she has now released two films. Her debut narrative film, A BAND APART, premiered at the London Independent Film Festival and won Best Short Film (Directors UK Award).