Oscars 2025 | Israeli-Palestinian film ‘No Other Land’ wins Best Documentary Feature
The Hindu
No Other Land, a film showing the alliance that develops between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist amid their peoples’ conflict on the occupied West Bank, won the documentary feature film Oscar today
No Other Land, a film showing the alliance that develops between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist amid their peoples' conflict on the occupied West Bank, won the documentary feature film Oscar at the ongoing 97th Academy Awards.
Accepting the award at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre were the Palestinian Basel Adra, born in 1996, and journalist Yuval Abraham, born in 1995. Other titles nominated in the category were Sugarcane, Porcelain War, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and Black Box Diaries.
The film shows Adra resisting the forced displacement of his people by the Israeli army in the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta. The film shows Israeli soldiers tearing down homes and evicting residents to create a military training zone.
Adra befriends Abraham, but their relationship is challenged by the gap in their living conditions.
Adra said: "No Other Land 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 to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people."
Abraham said they made the film because together their voices were stronger.
"We see each other, the atrocious destruction of Gaza and its people which must end, the Israeli hostages brutally taken in the crime of October 7 which must be freed.
