Anthem Liberty Foundation (ALF) has sponsored the shooting of new footage for the feature documentary No Land Promised in the Cyprus Buffer Zone. Filming took place on October 26, 2026, with a permit from the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.
The Foundation studies emerging regions: territories whose political status is unsettled and where new institutions built on individual rights may be possible. Its case study, Emerging Regions: Cyprus Buffer Zone, examines the buffer zone as one such place and how open borders could ease the island’s division.
ALF does not advocate any political initiative in Cyprus and does not urge Cypriots to take any action. The footage is provided for information only, to explain the benefits of laissez-faire capitalism. A new country in the buffer zone would allow laissez-faire capitalism to be implemented and, through an open border policy, would at the same time reconnect the island. Elsewhere in the world, capitalism is mixed with statism and thereby poisoned.
ALF founder Boris Reitman, producer Marina Ratina, and camera operator Fedor Lyass filmed at two locations in the zone: the Green Line and the abandoned Nicosia airport. The airport sits on flat land in the zone, a strip about 2 to 3 kilometers wide with a total area of about 25 square kilometers. The footage was shot in coproduction with a local Cyprus production company. The filming team totaled six people, including Reitman and Ratina, and it was accompanied by a convoy of U.N. soldiers at all times.
No Land Promised is a feature documentary about the future of statehood, conceived by Marina Ratina. Earlier clips from the film include interviews with Patri Friedman and Maria Alekhina of the Russian anti-Putinist art collective Pussy Riot. Ratina describes the film as “a collection of modern time legends about people attempting to build a better way of living” and “a good old quest for freedom with interesting consequences.” More information is at nolandpromised.com.