How to see Oscar-winning documentary feature "No Other Land" this week and only 18 minutes away by automobile. [Updated March 6 -- lots more showings]
The film has been playing at the Jacob Burns in Pleasantville for a while. There are two more showings this week. After that...
Despite winning the Academy Award for best documentary feature last night, the Palestinian-Israeli film “No Other Land” still does not have a mass distributor in the United States (it does in 24 other countries.) That may now change. We went to see it this afternoon, and it will probably come as no surprise to Chronicle readers that we recommend this powerful and essential film very highly.
While many around the country are still struggling to find a way to see the film, which is not available yet for streaming, we in Croton are lucky. There are two more performances this week at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville.
Here are the times:
We spoke to Jacob Burns staff who told us that it is not yet sure whether the film will be extended beyond this week, although the Burns has shown itself to be very responsive to events in the film world.
For those who are not quite sure what it is about, we don’t think the Burns will mind if we crib their description:
2024. 96 m. Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor. mTuckman Media. Norway/Palestine. Arabic/Hebrew/English. Rated NR.
2025 Academy Award Winner for Best Documentary Feature Film
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 and a search for a path towards equality and justice.
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
We will update this post if we do get further information about an extension of performances beyond this week. And if the film does find wider distribution, it may become available at other cinemas in our region.
Update March 6: The Burns has scheduled quite a few more showings over the next week. Here they are:
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Thanks for posting this. Very important documentary to watch that sheds light on the reality of the situation over there, much of it not being reported truthfully in the media (although oddly there has been more exposure to it the last month or two for some reason).