Screening times:
Saturday, March 8, 5:30 PM
Sunday, March 9, 5:30 PM - half-capacity screening
Thursday, March 13, 6:30 PM
Friday, March 14, 6:30 PM
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor | Palestine, Norway | 2024 | 95m
Arabic, Hebrew and English with English subtitles
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.
"Powerful Israel-Palestine documentary is essential viewing" - Adrian Horton, The Guardian
"In the hands of these filmmakers the camera becomes a weapon for truth and resistance” - Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
"“The filmmakers offer a shred of hope in this transnational act of solidarity and resistance” - Olivia Popp, Cineuropa
Winner: Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film, Berlinale Documentary Film Award - Berlin International Film Festival 2024
Winner: Audience Award - Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival 2024
Winner: Audience Award, Showcase - Vancouver Innternational Film Festival 2024
Winner: Best Documentary Feature - Gotham Awards 2024
Winner: Best Non-Fiction Film - New York Film Critics Circle 2024
Winner: Best International Independent Film - British Independent Film Awards 2024
Nominated: Best Documentary Feature Film - Academy Awards 2025
Tickets $8.75 ($8 at the door if available.
Sunday is a half-capacity screening.
