'No Other Land' Review: A Heartbreaking, Close Look at One of the Most Harrowing Crises of Our Era

No Other Land, a Palestinian-Israeli documentary portraying the Israeli government's progressive encroachment on, and destruction of, the homes and lives of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta of the Southern West Bank, should have been a shoo-in for U.S. distribution. Internationally award-winning and a front-runner for Best Documentary Feature in the 97th Oscars, it's overwhelmingly timely and a harrowing look at resilience in the face of constant repression, receiving distribution on a wide international scale, but U.S. distributors wouldn't touch the film with a 10-mile pole. Written and directed (as well as produced and edited by) Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor, it's a heartbreaking on-the-ground look at the human cost of the Israeli government's settlement policy that must be seen.