The Aurora Film Society has been broadening our community’s collective horizons by screening great movies together and we are excited to have the opportunity to make available to our community a film that is both Oscar-winning and not readily available for viewing. This film has no distributor so few theaters have shown the movie. We have partnered with the Palestine Activism Collective in order to make showing the film possible. The AFS is a 501(c)(3) and has no political stance on the film. We present it simply so others have an opportunity to make up their own minds about the film.
A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activist/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary. Over a period of five years (2019–23), Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra shoots video of home, school, water well, and road demolitions (legalized by the area’s conversion to an IDF training zone) and their consequent protests by displaced residents. Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham — free to move about while Adra’s movements are constricted — takes this nonviolent fight to a wider platform. The two form a complicated friendship and hopeful partnership in their efforts to resist a government-sanctioned mass eviction.
*In addition to the Oscar the film has won 68 other awards.
Doors open ½ hour before the film and there will be a discussion after
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Where:
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The Venue 21 S. Broadway, Aurora, IL 60505
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Dates and Times:
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Wednesday April 23, 2025 at Doors open at 3:30pm and 7:00pm; screenings begin at 4:00pm and 7:30pm
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Wednesday May 14, 2025 at Doors open at 3:30pm and 7:00pm; screenings begin at 4:00pm and 7:30pm
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Cost:
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$10.00 please note subscribers will need to purchase tickets for this special event seating is general admission
