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Gal Gadot’s presenting at the Oscars has sparked speculation online, after the Wonder Woman star switched categories for an unknown reason.The Israeli actor presented Best Visual Effects alongside her Snow White co-star Rachel Zegler at the awards on Sunday (March 2) in Los Angeles. However, she had originally been listed to present Best Documentary Feature, which Samuel L.

J. Kim Murphy The Oscars ceremony Sunday evening kept within the mold of prior awards ceremonies this year, steering clear of politics and avoiding even name-dropping Donald Trump.

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 Palestinian and Israeli directors of No Other Land, the documentary set in the occupied West Bank, criticized America’s foreign policy in the region as they accepted the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature tonight.

Israeli filmmaker Renen Schorr, founder of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School, has died at the age of 72.

Siddhant Adlakha The contradiction between acknowledgment and difficult acceptance lies at the heart of Brandon Kramer’s documentary — about his elderly relative Yehuda Beinin dealing with his daughter Liat’s Oct. 7 abduction — which establishes numerous political parameters through observation, in an effort to conjure sentiment.

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A fire engine sent from Scotland to help save lives in Palestine has been impounded by Israel for more than six months.

The directors of the Oscar-nominated documentary No Other Land are sharply criticizing Pres. Trump’s plan for the U.S. to take control of Gaza and dispatch its Palestinian inhabitants to other Arab countries.

Art The Clown exploded the latest quarter for Cineverse as the company’s revenue shot higher to $40.7 million in the last three months of 2024 from $13.3 million the year earlier.

Louis Theroux is returning to the West Bank for his latest documentary.

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy might not be the first thing that comes to mind in relation to Palestine right now, but it is the subject of feature documentary Palestinian Comedy Club which will be brought to market by sales and distribution company First Hand Films at the EFM.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Watermelon Pictures has acquired North American distribution rights to Palestinian-British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi’s timely drama “The Teacher,” which is shot and set in the West Bank. The film takes its cue from a real prisoners’ swap that took place in 2011, when Israel freed more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for one soldier who had been kidnapped by Palestinian militants.

Oscar-nominated No Other Land scored among highest per screen openings for a documentary in the last year, grossing an estimated $26.1k on one screen at the Film Forum in New York City.

No Other Land, Academy Award-nominated for Best Documentary Feature, opens today in New York at Film Forum from mTuckman Media/Cinetic Media with a limited theatrical expansion next weekend.

For a second year in a row, international-focused stories have dominated the Oscar nominations for Outstanding Documentary Feature: films set in the occupied West Bank, Japan, Ukraine, Canada and Congo. Each of the filmmakers in the category are first-time nominees, and only one is American — Brendan Bellomo, who made Porcelain War with Ukraine artist-soldier Slava Leontyev.

Tomris Laffly In her feature film work, Palestinian-American writer-director-actor Cherien Dabis has been telling intimately specific familial stories since “Amreeka” (2009). That was the filmmaker’s elegant, modestly scaled and altogether brilliant debut about a Palestinian mother and son, moving from the occupied West Bank to Chicago upon winning a green card lottery.

Stuart Miller A musical about crimes and identity; a searing drama about political and familial oppression; another about an activist searching for her missing husband; documentaries about sexual assault as told by the victim, about undoing centuries of imperialism and about Israel’s brutal treatment of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank; and a beautiful and wordless animated film about animals cooperating to survive after a flood. These movies — double Golden Globe winner “Emilia Pérez,” “Seed of the Sacred Fig,” “I’m Still Here,” “Black Box Diaries,” “Dahomey,” “No Other Land” and Globe winner “Flow” — have two things in common: They were all made overseas and they’re all generating legitimate Oscar buzz beyond the international feature film category.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Palestinian-American multi-hyphenate Cherien Dabis will soon be back in Sundance for the third time – after “May in the Summer” and “Amreeka” – with “All That’s Left of You,” a sweeping epic featuring three generations of Palestinians that provides an origin story of their plight at a very timely moment. The drama, which takes its cue from a Palestinian teen confronting Israeli soldiers at a West Bank protest – after which his mother recounts the events that led him to that fateful moment – was in pre-production in Palestine when the Israel-Hamas war broke out, forcing Dabis and the crew to relocate. Below, Dabis speaks to Variety about her personal connection to this ambitious labor of love and what drives her hope for the Palestinian people despite the fact that “the politicians have failed us.” You clearly have a personal connection to the film. Talk to me about your desire to bring this intergenerational epic to the screen. Well, it’s something I had been thinking about for many years.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent “No Other Land,” the Palestinian-Israeli doc which depicts the Israeli government’s efforts to force Palestinians from their homes in Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank, has been steadily gaining accolades ever since it scored the best documentary prize at last year’s Berlin Film Festival. The timely piece, which shows the gradual demolition of houses and entire villages by the Israeli military’s bulldozers, also played in a slew of other prestigious events including the New York Film Festival and recently won the top prizes from the New York Film Critics Circle and the International Documentary Association. “No Other Land,” which is directed by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists – Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Basel Adra – has also been tipped as a top contender for a nomination in the Oscars documentary feature category.

Addie Morfoot Contributor Members of the Academy Documentary Branch sifted through 169 eligible nonfiction features to determine this year’s shortlist. The 15 selected films are beautifully crafted docs about interesting and important subjects. Ten docs that made the list premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, while the five remaining debuted at other top-tier festivals, including Berlin, Venice and Toronto.