The Berlinale has been accused of being lukewarm in its response to the crisis in the Middle East. The festival has preferred a balancing act, a symptom of how delicate it is to criticize Israel in the country that organized the Holocaust.
Despite everything, several films in this edition deal with the conflict and its geopolitical consequences. The most notable in No Other Land is a documentary by a collective of four Israeli and Palestinian directors, who observe the gradual destruction, over the decades, of Masafer Yatta.