{"id":4827,"date":"2026-07-21T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:18:02","slug":"movie-no-other-land-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/movie-no-other-land-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: No Other Land (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/b\/be\/No_Other_Land_film_poster.jpg\/250px-No_Other_Land_film_poster.jpg\" alt=\"No Other Land\" width=\"250\" height=\"351\" \/>No Other Land<br \/><\/u><\/strong>Year: 2024<br \/>Rating: Not Rated<br \/>Length: 92 minutes \/ 1.53 hours<\/p>\n<p>Documentaries like <em>No Other Land<\/em> (2024) are not fun. They are necessary. Sure, I\u2019d much rather watch a documentary about street art or <a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/movie-my-octopus-teacher-2020\/\"><strong>an octopus<\/strong><\/a>, but a film like this shows just how bad it is in a war-torn part of the world that maybe gets a few minutes a day on a news broadcast. Bringing the human aspects of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians into focus paints a picture that\u2019s hard to ignore. There\u2019s a reason this movie won several awards for its content because it\u2019s necessary viewing to understand what\u2019s happening in that region.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s initially shocking is how long the territorial conflict between Israel and Palestine has been happening. That the Palestinians have put up with this treatment for decades isn\u2019t really about their persistence but more about the fact that they have nowhere else to go (thus the title of this documentary). It\u2019s depressing to see that activism doesn\u2019t have much of an affect at all on the situation, despite the clear evidence that one side is being the bully here and using force to get their way. These tactics are basically war crimes and shouldn\u2019t be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>There is some positivity here with the Israeli journalist joining this cause. Despite the differences in their beliefs, they can see with the footage they collect that the blatant destruction of these Palestinian homes is founded in cruelty from the Israeli government, not necessarily from the people of Israel (even if the soldiers themselves are Israeli). And even if the tragic events captured in this film seem to be endless, it\u2019s important that as many people as possible see this movie to bear witness to the destruction. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll watch this again, but I\u2019m glad I at least gave it a chance.<\/p>\n<p>A difficult movie that captures the cruelty of a current war, I give <em>No Other Land<\/em> 3.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/> 1\/2<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/bmw-the-critic\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3.png 820w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/BMW-the-Critic-v3-640x244.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Other LandYear: 2024Rating: Not RatedLength: 92 minutes \/ 1.53 hours Documentaries like No Other Land (2024) are not fun. They are necessary. Sure, I\u2019d much rather watch a documentary about street art or an octopus, but a film like this shows just how bad it is in a war-torn part of the world that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2740,2],"tags":[3845,4593,995,1026,13,4591,4592,8,4594,537,2170],"class_list":["post-4827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-documentary","category-movie","tag-3845","tag-conflict","tag-israel","tag-journalism","tag-movie","tag-no-other-land","tag-palestine","tag-review","tag-territory","tag-terrorism","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}