The Close Up film No Other Land is going to have its world première at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. The documentary is directed by a collective of 4 Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers: Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor, and tells the story of Basel, a young Palestinian activist who has been filming his community of Masafer Yata being destroyed by Israeli soldiers, as he develops an unlikely, intimate friendship with a similarly aged Israeli journalist who joins his struggle. The film, made in 2021-2021, gets its release in one of the darkest times of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. With this film the 4 directors show their commitment to justice and bring a message of hope for a better future.
Close up is a Brussels based training, development, and mentorship program for documentary filmmakers from Southwest Asia and North Africa. Check out Close ups other projects on https://closeupinitiative.org/ . Check the programmation of Berlin's film festival on https://www.berlinale.de
