After three inexplicable postponements, it will finally be broadcast tonight at 9.20pm on Rai 3 No Other Landa documentary that you don’t watch, you face it. Because it recounts, with documentation work that lasted five years, the destruction of the village of Masafer Yatta, in the West Bank, under Israeli occupation.
Filmed by an Israeli-Palestinian collective composed of Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the film shows daily life in a place where bulldozers sweep away houses and schools, but not the will to exist. At the center, the unlikely friendship between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist, two men divided by everything but united by the desire to testify.
Humanity among the rubble
No Other Land it is a tale of resistance, loss and dignity. It is an archive of real, never filtered images that document the slow erasure of a defenseless community and the determination not to react with violence.
Among the voices of the film is also that of Awdah Hathaleen, an activist and journalist killed last summer by an Israeli settler. Filmed between 2019 and 2023, it ends shortly before the Hamas attack and the subsequent offensive on Gaza, but every scene anticipates the present.
It’s not a film to “watch” in the evening: it’s a film that forces you not to look the other way. Awarded the 2025 Oscar for Best Documentary, No Other Land it remains one of the most necessary works of our time.
