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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Basil Adra is a Palestinian filmmaker and journalist born in the town of At-Tuwani in the Hebron municipality , and residing in Masafer Yatta . He co-wrote and directed the documentary film No Other Land in 2024, which premiered at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival , winning the Berlinale Award for Best Documentary and the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary. Basil works as a volunteer photographer for B'Tselem . He also works as a journalist for the online publications +972 Magazine and Local Call. In 2021, Hakol Hayehudi and Channel 12 falsely accused him of setting fire to a building in the Hebron Hills area of the West Bank, saying he wanted to frame the Israeli occupation army . On May 8, 2022, he was beaten by Israeli occupation forces while filming them demolishing a building he had built.
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