March 18-20 | Tuesday-Thursday | 1 hour, 32 minutes | Rated Unrated, but R |
Filmed over four years from 2019-2023, this documentary follows the destruction of Palestinian villages in the West Bank by Israeli forces. It was filmed and directed by a four-person collective of two Palestinians and two Israelis, exposing and resisting the violence inflicted on people who have lived on the land for generations. While some of the visuals picked up by the filmmakers is raw and painful, it is stitched together neatly, telling a story not only of grief and displacement, but of slivers of hope and friendship across lines. It does not document the current violence in Gaza, but the story it brings to the audience is very much part of the larger picture. The film won Best Documentary at the Oscars, and currently has a 100% Tomatometer and a 100% Popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes.
“It is a wrenching movie to see… No Other Land is a piece of resistance but also humanization.” -Mark Kennedy, Associated Press
“This discerning personal documentary, made by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, looks closely at a long-standing campaign of demolition and the violence that goes with it.” -Richard Brody, The New Yorker
“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.” -Sergio Berstein, Los Angeles Times
“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.” -Ty Burr, Washington Post
“If anything can be described as essential viewing, it’s this stark and unflinching account of life on the ground in a contested region of the West Bank.” -Wendy Ide, Observer (UK)
“No Other Land, for its many images of despair, still offers a stirring vision for what could be.” -Adrian Horton, Guardian
“With exceptional lucidity, No Other Land reminds us of the human stakes of Israel’s resettlement of the West Bank, and that fighting for justice starts from the ground up.” -Pat Brown, Slant Magazine
“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.” -Richard Whittaker, Austin Chronicle
No Other Land opens at The Clyde on Tuesday, March 18, and plays Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday at 7:30.
