Doc Talk Podcast: ‘No Other Land’ Filmmakers Blast Israel’s Treatment Of Palestinians: “We Need To End Apartheid”
deadline.comIn the past 10 days, the documentary No Other Land has surged to Oscar frontrunner status after racking up an impressive array of awards: top honors from the Gotham Awards, critics groups in Los Angeles and New York, the IDA Awards, the European Film Awards, and an award from the National Board of Review.
The feature directed by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers offers a rare ground-level view of what life is like for Palestinian villagers in a rural West Bank area who have faced an expulsion order from the Israel Defense Forces that goes back decades.
The IDF claims it needs the land as a training zone, but the filmmakers found a document in Israeli government archives suggesting that was a ruse and the real purpose was to push out Palestinians in favor of Jewish settlers.
Two of the directors who appear on camera throughout the film – Israeli Yuval Abraham and Palestinian Basel Adra – join the latest edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss the film, which has attracted no shortage of controversy, beginning at Berlin Film Festival.
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