No Other Land

A devastating film.

For all the ways “No Other Land” is about the mechanized march of cruel repression and the coldly bureaucratic way these attempts at forced displacement take place, it’s critically always centered on the impact on the people themselves.

Watching No Other Land is like learning another language, but it’s not just the speaking that’s important. It’s the listening.

What is seen here may not seem like much; but the intimate aspect of “No Other Land” is precisely what allows it to generate empathy in the viewer. [Full review in Spanish]

As an act of citizen journalism, it’s a document as damning as they come, and it lands in this endless, bitterly complex struggle like an argument that refuses to be rationalized away.

Inherently hopeful. Even as the bulldozers rumble, and soldiers take the safety off around kids, and goons point cameras in Abraham’s face and threaten Facebook-fueled revenge, there’s hope that the juggernaut of oppression can be stopped.

See No Other Land, and something chronically labelled “complicated” becomes simple.

No Other Land is a maddening film that exposes how cruel is the daily life of a people treated as invaders in their own nation. [Full review in Portuguese]

What is most moving is seeing how this everyday reality of eviction and resistance, of building and rebuilding, contrasts with another everyday reality that people want to have, which is to have a normal life. [Full review in Spanish]

Though undoubtedly grave, this stark film finds heart and humanity in the relationship that develops between Adra and Abraham, and in the dignity with which the citizens of Masafer Yatta resist their gradual expulsion.