Oscar -nominated West Bank feature, the Oscar, says films “can be part of the change.”

Palestinian and Israeli sitting in the West Bank village at night.

They are loudly wondering whether Basel will be able to visit the Yuval House in Israel, and whether the village of Basel will get constructive permits, and whether it will settle one day.

For years, friends photographed the destruction of homes, a well and a school by the Israeli army after the court declared an illegal Basel Society. They tell each other that they hope to change this reality.

Now, this scene has reached some of the largest stages in the world.

The movie was nominated, and there is no other land, for the Academy Award and BAFTA for the best documentary feature.

The battle is followed by Massifer Yata, a society of about 20 villages, and the friendship between Basel Adra and the Israeli journalist Yuval Ibrahim.

In the film, Basel is almost detained after a protest, and his father is arrested, and a soldier is called a member of the community in the neck while confiscating a birth, which led to the paralysis and death of the man.

“It is frightening because yes, the film succeeds and people are aware of it, but I do not think that there is sufficient work, especially among those who have the ability to change this,” Joal told the BBC.

“I don't have an illusion that films will change the world, but I know they can change individuals, and I know that they can be part of a greater change, and we need that now.”

Basel and Yafal invented the movie with Hamdan Bali and Rashil falsely for five years.

When asked about the man who was paralyzed, the Israeli Defense Army said that his investigation did not find a crime. A spokesman said that during an operation against “illegal construction”, two Palestinians grabbed a soldier from his weapon and a jacket, which led to a shot.

Palestinian eyewitnesses I told the Israeli media They were not contacted as part of the initial investigation and it is believed that the shot was intentionally released.

Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967. Israeli settlements in the region are illegal under international law, although Israel opposes this. They have expanded over the past 55 years, to become a focal point of violence and conflicting demands around the earth.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. This sparked an Israeli military campaign that killed at least 4,700 people in Gaza, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.

since then, Violence related to settlers In the West Bank increased, 13 Palestinians were killed by settlers, according to the United Nations.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health says that more than 850 Palestinians, many of them militants, were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in the same period. The United Nations says that 30 Israelis were killed by Palestinians in the West Bank during this time frame.

In 2024, and Un recorded About 1420 incidents of Israeli settlers violence – the highest number of victims or property damage or both, since the records began in 2006.

Basel said that the additional attacks on the Palestinians have occurred since US President Donald Trump returned to power, and filmmakers feared that it would get worse.

Trump lifted the sanctions set by the Biden administration on some settlers. The Ambassador of the President in Israel, Mike Hackabi, He said Israel has a “title of title” to the West Bank and “There is nothing like profession or settlements.

When asked on Tuesday if he agreed that the United States should recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank, Trump He said He has not taken a position yet, but he will issue an advertisement within four weeks.

The discussion began about Masafer Yatta in the 1980s when Israel announced that the area is a closed military shooting area, which means that no one was allowed to live there.

according to Notes from the 1981 meetingThe then Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Ariel Sharon, offered the additional running areas to restrict “Arab villagers' expansion from the hills to the desert.”

Israel has previously argued the population and did not live there permanently. The Palestinian population took their issue to the Supreme Court in Israel, where the societies that lived there were generations and referred to the map of 1945 that clarified some villages.

In 2022, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Israel and allowed the demolition of homes and expelled more than 1,000 villagers.

Scenes from the film show a bulldozer destroying an elementary school, a truck flowing on the well, and crushing machines while villagers face the army.

A girl cries, and when her mother is asked if she has anywhere else to go, she says: “We do not have another land.”

The documentary also records intimate human moments, as when the mother, who moves to a cave, accepts her daughter and tells her: “You are my love … tomorrow it will be a new day.”

The film explores the friendship of Basel and Yaval as well. Although it is of the same age and shares similar values, inequality is currently.

While Yuval can travel freely in Israel and the West Bank, noelils can travel to Israel without a permit, as part of what you say are security measures.

In the film, Basel wears that although he studied law, he found only a work in building in Israel, and when he thinks about it very difficult, “I feel this great depression.”

The film is not ashamed of the tension created by the identity of Yuval, where one of the Palestinians asks: “How can we remain friends, when you come here, and can be your brother or friend who destroyed my home?”

Yuval BBC told that he felt “the responsibility of what is happening to the Basel community” because “at the end of the day, the fuel in the bulldozers is the tax milestones.”

Last year, Joal faced a violent reaction to the admission letter for the Best Documentary Film Award at the Berlin Film Festival, along with Basel, in which he criticized the “apartheid situation” and called for a ceasefire in Gaza.

The American director Ben Russell, who was there and wore a Palestinian scarf, said he was standing against “genocide” in Gaza. Israel strongly denies the accusation of genocide.

German Minister of Culture Claudia Roth He said the statements It was “unilaterally shocked and characterized by a deep hatred for Israel,” while Posted on social media It was “unbearable lineage” and that “anti -Semitism has no place in Berlin.”

Israel's public broadcaster Yoval's anti -Semitic comments are called Seamia.

Yuval, who said he had received death threats, told BBC that he was “very angry” on the poster, and who “emptied this term while anti -Semitism rises on the left wing and on the left wing.”

He said he was “ridiculous” to hear criticism when most of his family members in the Holocaust killed, adding that learning from this date “must tell us to fight the disposal of humanity … regardless of who is the victim.”

Although he won many international awards, there are no other lands in the United States because they did not find an official distributor there-a rare for a documentary film that was nominated for the Academy Award.

One of the last scenes of the movie is from October 13, 2023, when Basel A settler recorded his cousin, Who appears empty, in the stomach. In other shots, settlers throw rocks in homes while watching soldiers.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that the shooting case was transferred to the state prosecutor's office, with which the BBC dealt with it to comment.

Currently in Massifer Yataand Basel said that the settlers have “Unlimited power” and there “The daily level of harassment”.

He said that there were three main attacks for the settlers in January, including a 72 -year -old who was transferred to the hospital after he was in the head with sticks, and about 15 people were arrested in the two days before January 30 while grazing their sheep or chasing away the settlers sheep . The Israeli police did not respond to the BBC request for comment.

The UK has offered three exclusion sites and four organizations it says support violence against West Bank. Yoval called the UK to the punishment of all settlers, believing that he “would be really deterrent.”

“It was clear with the Israeli ministers that they should get rid of settlers' violence and end the expansion of the settlement,” the BBC spokesman told the BBC.

“We regularly took measures against settlers' violence, including through targeted sanctions, and we will continue to do everything we can to ensure the protection of the rights of Palestinians and that those responsible for violence are being calculated,” the statement said.

“I really think that there is no other way to move forward, unlike reaching a fair and just political solution where the Palestinians could be free, really free, and our people, both of which are security and self -determination, will have a security,” said Yuval.

“This makes me really angry, not only that my government is going in the other direction, but the world allows it to happen for a long time.”

In the movie, Basel remembers a seven-minute visit by Tony Blair to his village-and then Israel canceled the demolition orders there.

He says, “This is a story about strength.”

Now, Basel gets “strength and power from people around me”, which makes him want not to surrender.

“It does not happen one drop of water, but he continues to drop the water and will change,” he says during a protest in the movie.