Basel Adra,Yuval Abraham, andRachel Szorcut short what was to have been a month-long visit.
(Fellow directorHamdan Ballalstayed back in the West Bank and didnt make the U.S. trip).
Just in the past 24 or 48 hours, things escalated again very dramatically.
L-R ‘No Other Land’ directors Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, and Yuval Abraham attend the New York Film FestivalJamie McCarthy/Getty Images for FLC
Eight Israelis were killed in Jaffa.
As an Israeli, Abraham can fly into Ben Gurion International Airport, located between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
It has never been more urgent.
‘No Other Land’ directors Basel Adra (left), and Yuval Abraham take part in a Q&A at the New York Film Festival on September 29, 2024.Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for FLC
Yuval expanded on the films themes in conversation with Deadline.
And this has been going on for decades, much before October 7th.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised retaliation for Irans missile strike.
I think the United States foreign policy is not helping it happen.
Adra said international focus on the widening conflict has obscured frightening developments in the West Bank.
He told Deadline Israeli settlers and troops are ramping up violent assaults on Palestinians.
No Other Landwill open at Film at Lincoln Center on November 1 for an exclusive one-week run.
We are still hopeful that this will happen… We are in touch with several distributors.
Nothing is now yet concrete, but there are conversations happening.
