DUBAI: A documentary film about struggles faced by a West Bank village against Israeli settlers has won the Berlinale Documentary Film Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
“No Other Land” is an Israeli-Palestinian production, with Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham acting as co-directors.
“No Other Land” is an Israeli-Palestinian production, with Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham acting as co-directors. (Supplied)
“I'm here celebrating the award, but also very hard for me to celebrate when there are tens of thousands of my people being slaughtered and massacred by Israel in Gaza,” Adra said at the ceremony on Saturday.
He urged Germany to “respect UN calls and stop sending weapons to Israel.”
His co-director, Abraham, added: “I am Israeli, Basel is Palestinian. And in two days we will go back to a land where we are not equal... this situation of apartheid between us, this inequality has to end.”
“No Other Land” had also earlier won an audience award.
In an earlier interview with Variety, Adra had said, “Yuval and Rachel, who are Israelis, came five years ago to write about things — Yuval is journalist — we met and we became friends but also activists together, working on articles about the area.” He further said, “And then we got the idea of doing this, of creating this movie.”
