"No Other Land" Film Screening
Thursday, February 20, 2025
7:00 pm
Rubenstein Film Theater, 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Co-sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Provost's Initiative on the Middle East, Cinematic Arts and Screen/Society, Duke Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke Student Affairs

The Duke Human Rights Center@the Franklin Humanities Institute and the Rights! Camera! Action! Film Series presents "No Other Land." 

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community by Israel's occupation since childhood. He documents the slow-motion eradication of the villages in his home region where soldiers deployed by the Israeli government are gradually demolishing houses and driving out their residents. Eventually, he meets Yuval, an Israeli journalist, who supports him in his efforts. An unlikely alliance develops. However the relationship between the two is strained by the enormous inequality between them: Basel lives under military occupation while Yuval lives freely and without restrictions. This film by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists has been made as an act of creative resistance on the path to greater justice.

Visitor parking is available for $2/hour in pay-by-space lots in several locations near the Rubenstein Arts Center, including:

The Campus Drive lot, located at the corner of Campus Drive and Anderson Street, is directly across the street. Visitors may park in this lot on weekends (after 5pm Friday through Sunday evening) with a valid Duke parking permit or via the PayByPhone app or by calling 866-234-7275 (location #3121). More information about PayByPhone.

The Nasher Museum of Art, located at 2001 Campus Drive, has a pay-by-space lot with both kiosks and PayByPhone. 

Sarah P Duke Gardens, located at 420 Anderson Street, has a pay-by-space lot with both kiosks and PayByPhone. 

There is also limited free street parking along Alexander Avenue and Oregon Street (less than a five-minute walk from the arts center).

trailer

No Other Land trailer

Post-Screening Panelists

Dr. Rebecca Stein is a cultural anthropologist, and an award winning teacher, researching linkages between culture and politics in Israel in the context of the Israeli military occupation and legacy of the Palestinian dispossession.  She is the author and/or editor of five books in the field of anti-colonial Israel/Palestine studies. Her research and writing has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Palestinian American Research Council, and the Trent Foundation. Her popular writing on Palestine and Israel has appeared in such places as London Review of Books (Blog), Middle East Report, Open Democracy, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Dr. Stein is currently a Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.