Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films as his community of Masafer Yatta is gradually eradicated by the destruction and forced displacements of the Israeli occupation. Adra builds an unlikely alliance with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who reports on what his own government is doing to the West Bank communities. Substantially made before the Hamas attacks of October 2024, and Israel’s subsequent assault on Gaza, this extraordinary piece of reportage by a Palestinian-Israeli collective offers an insider view of a West Bank community resisting a programme of demolition by the Israeli army.

Notes by David O’Mahony

Screening as part of IFI Documentary Festival 2024.

You may also find GAZA: A Story of Love and War, available online as part of the IFI Documentary Festival @Home, interesting.