No Other Land wins best documentary feature Oscar
The film, which is made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, won out against competition from Black Box Diaries, Porcelain War and Sugarcane.
No Other Land premiered at the Berlin film festival last year where it won the Berlinale documentary award. The film was made between 2019 and 2023 and focuses on the steady forced displacement of Palestinians from their homes in Masafer Yatta, a region in the occupied West Bank targeted by Israeli forces.
Despite acclaim, the film could not find distribution in the US and was self-distributed instead. The Guardian's Adrian Horton called it 'straightforward, un-sensationalized and completely infuriating' in a five-star review.
'I believe it's clear that it's for political reasons,' co-director Yuval Abraham told Deadline about the lack of formal distribution. 'I hope that it will change. We basically decided not to wait on the theatrical release because the demand in the United States is now so high for the film, and we are now releasing it in almost 100 theaters independently. And we're seeing everything is sold out.'
Since the Hamas attack on 7 October, Israeli forces have killed at least 48,200 Palestinians while forcibly displacing 2 million survivors.
Last year saw 20 Days in Mariupol win the award.
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