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Will the Year’s Most Powerful Documentary Ever Make It to Theaters?
No Other Land, directed by a four-person Israeli-Palestinian collective, has won awards and acclaim. But no one in the U.S. wants to distribute it.
Adra has spent years posting videos of military excursions into his village and surrounding areas; Abraham reveals that he himself quit the IDF when they assigned him to an intelligence unit thanks to his fluency in Arabic. Our brains are wiped clean after each new flare-up, and we see any subsequent events in binary, simplistic cause-and-effect terms: The Palestinians did this, so the Israelis did this, or vice versa — when the truth of the matter is that this bloody occupation, with all its perpetual-motion cruelties and endless mental tolls, has been going on for decades, with ordinary people caught in the middle. Perhaps the most ridiculous example of the latter came during the festival’s closing night ceremony, when Adra and Abraham took the stage to receive an award and spoke out against the IDF’s actions in Gaza and for Germany’s continued military support of Israel.
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