Topic: | No Other Land | |
Posted by: | Joe Conneely | |
Date/Time: | 28/03/25 21:25:00 |
The surprising winner of the 2025 Oscar for Best documentary, this film has had recent one-off showings at Acton One. Given it is about the Israeli destruction of several West Bank Palestinian settlements after the residents lost a 20-year Court battle to stop their village area being used for Israeli tank exercises, it is not an easy watch. Using phone and home video footage compiled over many years it shows the ratcheting up of the steps taken to try and make the Palestinians leave the area, especially the destruction of homes and the area school, with heavy IDF military presence restraining the angry locals. Post the recent Hamas attacks in Gaza, the local Israeli settlers with seeming indifference by the IDF troops present, also attack the villagers’ homes. Much of the footage is crude guerrilla filmmaking in quality but the suffering and stoic resilience of the villagers (some refuse to leave after losing their homes and move into nearby caves) and the few brave Israeli journalists assisting them is what you leave the cinema remembering. |
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