NO OTHER LAND

Directed by Basel Adaraa, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Balal, PALESTINE/NORWAY (2024), 1h.32m

Close Up 2020-2021 alumni

BEST DOCUMENTARY & BEST AUDIENCE AWARD BERLINALE 2024

For the past ten years, Basel, a young Palestinian activist, has been filming his community being destroyed by Israeli soldiers. During the darkest year of his life, he develops an unlikely relationship with a similarly aged Israeli journalist – who wants to join his struggle.

Official Festival Screenings & Awards:

- 74th Berlin International Film Festival, World Premiere 2024 – Best Documentary & Best Audience Award Berlinale 2024
- Al Jazeera Award for Best International Documentary 2024
- Human Rights Film Festival Norway – Best Documentary Award March 2024
- CPH DOX Denmark, Audience Award 2024
- Vision du Reel Film Festival Nyon, Switzerland – Audience Award 2024
- Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2024 Tim Hetherington Award
- Belfast Film Festival 2024 Maysles Brothers Award
- IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival Audience Award 2024
- Millennium Docs Against Gravity Poland – Best Documentary Award 2024
- Zagreb Dox Croatia – Audience Award 2024
- Human International Documentary Film Festival 2024 The Human Rights Human Wrongs Film Award
- MDOC- Melgaco International Documentary Film Festival 2024 Don Quijote Award
- Movies that Matters, the Netherlands,
- Cinema du Reel, Paris, 2024

Financial Support & Grants:

IDFA Bertha Fund IBF Classic Production Grant 2021
Sundance Documentary Fund Production Grant 2021
Doc’s Up Fund Award 2021
Pitched at European Film Market 2022
Attended Movies that Matter Festival Rough Cut Service 2022
IBF Europe – Minority Co-production Award 2022
Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab 2023
Close Up Showcase, Silver Sun Foundation, Upstate Films, NY, 2023

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