‘No Other Land’ Review: The Best Doc of 2024

Documentaries tend to point outward, with filmmakers capturing the subjects they see, but with new generations and technology, the medium has increasingly shifted the camera inward, into selfie mode. Over the past decade or so, more and more documentaries have focused on the people making the documentary itself, just as social media has become an interconnected and international documentary project with humanity as the subject. The self-reflexive tendency to document one’s own life has become secondhand nature for younger generations, each one of us crying out in tiny voices, “I exist!” That is often the purpose of documentary filmmaking, after all — capturing the state of something for all to see. For the filmmakers of No Other Land, this act is as much about art as it is about survival.


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