No Other Land took home Best Documentary Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, beating fellow nominees Black Box Diaries, Porcelain War, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, and Sugarcane.
The doc had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2024, winning the Berlinale Documentary Award for Best Documentary and the Panorama Documentary Audience Award, per Variety. Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, and Yuval Abraham accepted the Oscar on Sunday night (March 2) from presenters Selena Gomez and Samuel L. Jackson.
Adra, a Palestinian journalist, delivered a speech, during which he highlighted how the film “reflects the harsh reality that we have been enduring for decades, and still resist as we call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people.”
Abraham, an Israeli journalist and film director, added that Palestinians and Israelis collaborated on the
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