Academy Award winner ‘No Other Land’ at Art House Oct. 14
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from KEPW News staff reports
The Oregon chapter of Doctors Against Genocide presents a screening and discussion of the Academy Award-winning documentary “No Other Land” Oct. 14, 5:30 p.m., at Eugene Art House, 492 E. 13th Ave.
The film was named best documentary feature film at the 97th Academy Awards in 2025.
Documentary magazine writes that director Basel Adra was born to a family of activists in the Palestinian community of Masafer Yatta, an area of 20 small villages in the mountains of the West Bank. Israeli bulldozers appeared one night and began demolishing structures.
In “No Other Land,” Adra explains: “I started filming when we started to end.”
He soon had regular visitors to his home: Israeli investigative journalist Yuval Abraham; Israeli visual journalist Rachel Szor; and Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian farmer, photographer, and human rights researcher from Susiya, a neighboring village in the South Hebron Hills.
As Documentary magazine writes, Ballal suggested that the four collaborate on a longform documentary. The collective agreed on the condition that “if any of the four directors objected to a shot or sentiment, it would not be included.”
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the two Israeli directors among the four directors of “No Other Land,” went on to produce the 2026 film “NAZA,” which recently won a special jury prize at the Venice International Film Festival.
Abraham and Szor issued this statement about NAZA:
“We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israelis to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians for which our country is responsible. While filming over the past three years, we found ourselves asking the very questions that were asked by our grandparents’ generation and throughout the 20th century: How does one group of people allow the total dehumanisation of another? What do the inner workings of such a system look like?
“Many of the revelations in the film were published almost immediately as we learned of them, in the months following the Oct. 7 attacks, by The Guardian (one of NAZA’s producers), in collaboration with reporting partners +972 Magazine and Local Call. The film lets us explore something deeper than we could in our investigative journalism alone: not only the words being said but also those that are not said, the silence. It is up to all of us to break that silence.”
The Guardian wrote, “Szor and Abraham build their film around the accounts of 24 anonymised military and intelligence insiders. NAZA, we learn, is an acronym used by the intelligence service to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike on Gaza.”
The screening of “No Other Land” will also feature a short video and an update on Gaza Farm, in Beit Lahia in North Gaza, about 4.5 miles north of Gaza City and just north of Jabalia.
For more information and tickets, visit EugeneArtHouse.com.
