In the face of the systematic destruction of the homes of Palestinian families who have lived for generations in Masafer Yatta, a group of villages in the West Bank, activists Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal began the guerrilla work of filming those Israeli military operations in 2019.

The irony shouldn’t be lost on anyone that “No Other Land,” a documentary about the systemic demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank, cannot find a cinematic home, either with a distributor or a major U.S. streamer.

No Other Land, Academy Award-nominated for Best Documentary Feature, opens today in New York at Film Forum from mTuckman Media/Cinetic Media with a limited theatrical expansion next weekend. The doc is written,

Some documentarians settle for breaking your heart. Others struggle to clarify a long-view geopolitical panorama, with a specific subject or conflict as the viewfinder. “No Other Land” achieves both,