Documentary:

What is the film about?

The film was produced from 2019 to 2023 and comprises mostly personal camcorder footage filmed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra, 28, who documents the Israeli military’s destruction of his hometown, Masafer Yatta in a small, rugged region in the southern occupied West Bank.

The film highlights Israeli demolitions of homes in the village, which the Israeli military wants to turn into a military training zone. Its footage shows the Israeli military razing a school and filling water wells with cement, so residents cannot rebuild.

Adra made the film with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who co-directed it along with Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal and Israeli filmmaker Rachel Szor.

During his Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday night in Los Angeles, Adra said his film “reflects the harsh reality we have been enduring for decades and still resist as we call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people”.

“About two months ago, I became a father, and my hope to my daughter is that she will not have to live the same life I’m living now.”

Abraham said in his speech: “When I look at Basel, I see my brother. But we are unequal. We live in a regime where I am free under civilian law and Basel is under military laws that destroy lives, that he cannot control,” he said.

The film was released months after deadly Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered Israel’s war on Gaza.

“This is the story of how Israel was able to get a protest group based in another country proscribed as a Terrorist organisation”

Just found on my hd. March 2011. Another good one! 😃

加拿大BC省西北部暴風雪(Snow Falling) The Blizzard in Kitimat %26 Terrace, BC Canada was the name it had and dated 2020, but I thought it was a bit earlier. No matter, it just shows that even we aren't ready when it does this - which it does every few years or so. 1.8m in like a day and a half sort of thing...

Every direction is snow capped mountains with a big river running through it.

Just random scenery really.

Nisga'a valley lava beds

I think... 😃 either driving back from fishing on Kalum Lake, or visiting the Nisga'a Valley territory. I forget.