No Other Land
An urgent, intimate documentary of Masafer Yatta where Palestinian resistance and Israeli solidarity confront the machinery of displacement.
Overview
A poignant exploration of resilience amidst oppression and the power of solidarity.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- urgent
- harrowing
- intimate
- political film night
- human rights screening
What critics said
Critics overwhelmingly praise the film as a devastating, urgent, and tightly constructed act of activist documentary witnessing against occupation and erasure.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The filmmakers use footage of demolitions, military actions, and community life as both testimony and an intervention against erasure.
Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham develop an alliance while confronting the destruction of Masafer Yatta.
The film records houses, schools, infrastructure, and village life being destroyed in the occupied West Bank.
Critics emphasize its eye-opening urgency, concise assembly of evidence, and devastating portrait of occupation.
Films like No Other Land, and why
The Look of Silence
urgent observational documentary filmmaking about state violence, displacement, and human rights
5 Broken Cameras
politically engaged documentary centered on occupation, testimony, and resistance
For Sama
devastating nonfiction portrait of communities enduring systemic violence and displacement
Navalny
activist documentary using intimate footage to expose institutional oppression
Movie Details
- Directors
- Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
- Release Date
- 2024-11-01
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rating
- 8.0 / 10 (354)
Cast
- Basel Adra
- Yuval Abraham
- Farisa Abu Aram
- Nasser Adra
- Harun Abu Aram
- Kifah Adara
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is No Other Land about?
- An urgent, intimate documentary of Masafer Yatta where Palestinian resistance and Israeli solidarity confront the machinery of displacement.
- What is No Other Land like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of No Other Land as measured, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as layered.
- Is No Other Land violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in No Other Land as moderate.
- What did critics think of No Other Land?
- Critics overwhelmingly praise the film as a devastating, urgent, and tightly constructed act of activist documentary witnessing against occupation and erasure.
- Which films are like No Other Land?
- Films with a similar feel include The Look of Silence, 5 Broken Cameras, For Sama, and Navalny.
- How long is No Other Land?
- No Other Land runs 92 minutes.
- Where can I watch No Other Land?
- In United States, No Other Land is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home.
