Thursday April 17, Arte broadcasts season 2 of No Man’s Landan exciting series that recounts the trajectories of men and women at the heart of the conflict in Syria between a battalion of Kurdish women and the Islamic State.
Five years after season 1, the series No Man’s Land Returns to Arte with a season 2 broadcast on Thursday April 17 on Arte (the episodes are available on Arte.TV until October 16, 2025). Ideological commitment and the sense of sacrifice are among the strong themes that are addressed in No Man’s Land. Without manicheism or angelism, this fresco co-wrote by Amit Cohen and Ron Leshem, two ex-journalists having covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, plunges the spectator into the heart of the war in Syria, opposing the Kurds to the Islamic State, through the intended destinies of men and women fighting in the two camps. If Félix Moati and James Purefoy (Marie-Antoinette) are no longer in the casting, Mélanie Thierry et Souheila Yacoub are back. By their side in this second season, there is Thibaut Evrard (seen in Kabul), Leo Hatton and the young revelation, Tasnim Cheham.
No Man’s Land : What is season 2 about the series on Arte this Thursday, April 17, 2025?
Among the routes that depicts season 2 of No Man’s Land, the spectator follows those of: Sarya (Souheila Yacoub), at the head of the Kurdish female militia the YPJ (woman’s protection units), and which is plagued by doubt; Anna (Mélanie Thierry), a volunteer French French after saving the life of the young Syrian Nisrine (Tasnim Cheham); Jake (Zed Josef), a Daesh financial official who finds her great youthful love, the American Ellie (Leo Hatton); The infiltrated agent Nasser (James Krishna Floyd) seeking at all costs to flee the country; And Max, the reporter (Thibaut Evrard) in search of a strong subject for his newspaper.
No Man’s Land : Should we watch season 2 of the series broadcast on Arte this Thursday, April 17? Our opinion
Their singular and exciting trajectories are told with modesty and sensitivity. If we get carried away by all the characters, that of Nisrine is the most touching. A keystone of history, this teenager in search of her mother creates a bridge with the spectator and reveals sweetness and humanity in each of the protagonists she meets.
The strength of this choral story also lies in its accuracy of tone. The intrigue has some shock sequences which underline the horror of war without free violence or voyeurism. Spectators who would be frightened by the gravity of the subject can be reassured because the narration favors the romantic aspect and no man’s land follows as a thriller, all the more addictive as we get attached to all the characters, even those whose convictions are not shared. The series also highlights the critical situation of women in the Middle East.
The other strong point to emphasize this fiction is the limpidity of the plot, despite the multiplicity of points of view and the complexity of the issues of this armed conflict. So no need to have a master’s degree in geopolitics to understand these human stories that raise the challenge of captivating while inviting reflection.
