Israeli-Palestinian film No Other Land has won the best documentary film award at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.
Set in the town of Masafar Yatta in the occupied West Bank, the film is directed by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra.
Its shortlisting for the Oscar was announced on Thursday despite the film not having any distribution deal in the US.
Much of No Other Land is made up of footage dating back to Adra’s childhood showing his activist father squaring off against Israeli soldiers and settlers in order to stop appropriation of Palestinian land.
The movie previously won the Documentary Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, otherwise known as Berlinale film festival, in February last year. ….more
