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Basel Adra, Palestinian filmmaker and Oscar winner: ‘Israelis don’t see us as human beings’

Gregorio Belinchón Yagüe — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:46:28 GMT

Wednesday morning at a Madrid hotel. Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra, an Oscar winner for the documentary No Other Land, turned 30 on Monday after waiting hours in queues at border crossings and passing through checkpoints (“It’s inhuman, it’s another tool against Palestinians,” he says) in order to take part in the Ministerial Conference, co-organized by the ministries of culture of Spain and Palestine, which opened at the Museo del Prado on the afternoon of July 15 and where more than 30 international delegations will sign a declaration for the reconstruction of Palestinian culture. Thanks to his statuette and the trajectory of his film, Adra is one of the most visible faces among artists inside and outside his country, and he still lives in the village where he was born, Al Tuwani, a hamlet in Masafer Yatta, a harsh area of the southern West Bank depicted in his film. “They recognize me at every Israeli checkpoint, that scares me,” he explains. Serious — although he will smile when soccer or his 18-month-old daughter is mentioned — and accompanied by his wife, Adra sits down to talk. He makes only one request: that the chosen table be in the quietest area because he speaks softly and in a low voice.

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