What is “No Other Land”, the winning documentary made by Israelis and Palestinians

The film received the prize for best documentary during the 97th delivery of the highest cinema awards, from Hollywood, at a time when the war in Gaza is going through a fragile truce, destroyed by Israeli war intervention, and the West Bank lives daily The consequences of the conflict.

“No Other Land” It is the portrait of a Bank village under Israeli military occupation, Directed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli research journalist, Yuval Abraham. Both took the stage to receive the statuette and had something to say that he put a veil of seriousness to the evening.

The movie, produced between 2019 and 2023, Follow the activist Adra while runs the risk of being arrested To document the destruction of their hometown, Masafer Yatta, that Israeli soldiers are knocking down to use it as military training zoneat the southern end of the West Bank.

Adra’s supplications fall into deaf ears until he is friends with a Jewish-Israeli journalist, Yuval Abrahamwho helps him expand his story.

“About two months ago I became a father and my hope for my daughter is that I do not have to live the same life that I lead now,” said Adra.

Adra went on to describe the problems facing his village, including housing demolitions and displacement. “We call on the world to take serious measures to stop injustice and stop the ethnic cleaning of the Palestinian people,” he said.

Yuval Abraham then took the floor and described Adra as his “brother”, but denounced that he was He considers them “unequal.”

“We live in a regime in which I am free according to civil law and Basel is under military laws that destroy their life,” Abraham said.

Abraham asked for the end of the violence that has consumed Middle East For decades and worsened after Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 and the consequent Israeli military offensive in Gaza.

“We made this movie, Palestinians and Israelis, because together our voices are stronger,” Abraham said. “See each other. The heinous destruction of Gaza and his people must end. Israeli hostages brutally taken in the crime of October 7 must be released, ”said Abraham.

He urged the world to seek “a different path, a political solution, without ethnic supremacy, with national rights for our two peoples.” And he criticized the US government, accusing the “foreign policy of this country” of “helping to block this path.” Both winners took a standing applause.

“No Other Land” was one of the documentaries best valued last year. He did not get distribution in cinemas in the United States, a fact that the filmmakers attributed to political sensibilities around the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The documentary imposed itself in front of the other nominees: Porcelain War, Sugarcane, Black Box Diaries y Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Porcelain war, sugarcane, black cashier newspapers and soundtrack of a coup d’etat).

“No Other Land” also won the public prize and the documentary award at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2024, as well as the New York film critics circle award for the best non -fiction film.

The Israeli Minister of Culture, Miki Zohar, described on Monday as “sad moment for the world of cinema” the delivery of an Óscar to the Israelo-Palestinian documentary “No Other Land”.

“Instead of presenting the complexity of Israeli reality, filmmakers have chosen to amplify stories that distort Israel’s image against the international public,” Zakud, a member of the Likud, wrote the party of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in a message on the social network X.

The documentary can be seen on some streaming platforms such as Filmin or Mubi, but not in all cases is available to look in Argentina.