Best Documentary Oscar winner ‘No Other Land’ praised for “moving” speech on Palestine

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No Other Land have received praise for their powerful acceptance speech after winning the Best Documentary Feature Oscar.The film, which is made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective and focuses on the displacement of Palestinians from a region in the West Bank, took home the award during tonight’s (March 2) ceremony.Upon accepting the award, co-director Basel Adra said: “About two months ago I became a father and my hope to my daughter that she will not have to live the same life I’m living now, always fearing surveillance, home demolitions and forced displacements that my community is living and facing every day under the Israeli occupation.“No Other Land reflects the harsh reality that we’ve been enduring for decades and still resist as we call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.”The team behind #NoOtherLand accepts the #Oscar for best documentary and speaks about the Iraeli-Palestinian conflict pic.twitter.com/3ilRwmdkzf— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 3, 2025Fellow director Yuval Abraham added: “We made this film, Palestinians and Israelis, because together our voices are stronger.

We see each other, the atrocious destruction of Gaza and its people which must end. The 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,” he continued. “We live in a regime where I am free under civilian law, and Basel is under military law that destroys his life and he cannot control.“There is a different path, a political solution, without ethnic supremacy, with national rights for both our people.