I can't imagine why.

I watched this again yesterday and it's taken me this long to calm down again. The settlers and the IDF are a disgrace to humanity.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/03/no-other-land-wins-best-documentary-feature-oscar

No Other Land directors criticise US as they accept documentary Oscar: ‘US foreign policy is helping block the path’ to peace

The West Bank-based film No Other Land has won this year’s 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 Still Documentary, 95 min. A film by Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham with support from Sundance Institute, IDFA Bertha Fund, NFI, Fritt Ord, IMS, Terre Solidaire, Misereor, Entreaide & Fraternité, Broederlijk and Shortcut Oslo. For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with a journalist from the other side who joins his fight.

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.

Speaking to a standing ovation, the film-makers thanked the Academy before co-director Basel Adra said he had recently become a father and hoped his daughter’s life would not be like his – “always fearing certain violence, home demolitions and forced displacement”.

He continued by saying his film reflected “the harsh reality” that his fellow Palestinians had endured for many years, “as we call on the world to take serious action to stop the injustice and stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people”.

Co-director Yuval Abraham then took to the stage to say that Palestinians and Israelis had made the film together “because together our voices are stronger. We see each other the atrocious destruction of Gaza and its people must end.

“Israeli hostages brutally taken in the crime of October 7 which must be freed. When I look at Basel I see my brother but we are unequal. we live in a regime where I am free under civilian law but Basel has to live under military laws that destroy his life and he cannot control.

He continued: “There is a different path. A political solution. Without ethnic supremacy, with national rights for both of our people. And I have to say, as I am here, the foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path.

“Why? Can’t you see that we are intertwined? That my people can be truly safe if Basel’s people are truly free and safe. There is another way. It’s not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way.”