The Palestinian-Israeli documentary No Other Land won the Best Documentary Feature award at the 96th Academy Awards (known commonly as the Oscars) on 3 March 2025, held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The film, a rare collaboration between co-directors, Palestinians Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal and Israelis Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, chronicles Adra’s fight to save his hometown in Masafer Yatta, a region designated as an Israeli military training zone, while exposing systemic inequalities faced by Palestinians. During their acceptance speech, Adra and Abraham delivered impassioned pleas for equality and political change. Adra, whose own home was demolished during filming, dedicated the award to displaced families: “We call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.” Abraham, addressing the disparity in their lived realities, stated: “When I look at Basel, I see my brother, but we are unequal. I am free under civilian law; Basel lives under military law that destroys his life. There is another path—a political solution without ethnic supremacy.” Abraham also criticized U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump, accusing it of obstructing peace:…
Palestinian-Israeli Documentary ‘No Other Land’ Wins 2025 Oscar for Best Documentary
March 3, 2025
