Film Series: No Other Land, Best Documentary, Oscars 2025

FILM SERIES: No Other Land, Best Documentary, Oscars 2025

On March 2, the documentary film No Other Land won Best Documentary at the 2025 Oscars.

We are showing this film because it brings to life in a gripping and unflinching way what is largely censored in the US: the violent, escalating attacks and land grabs by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The US is the principal backer and imperialist sponsor of the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people, and this is now even more vicious with Trump. Despite winning an Oscar, no US distributor has picked up this film - keeping the true horror of what is taking place in Palestine covered up inside this country.

On March 24, a mob of masked Israeli settlers, armed with batons, knives and assault rifles, along with Israeli soldiers, carried out a vicious attack against Hamdan Ballal, one of the film's co-directors. Ballal screamed, “I’m dying,” as he was being ruthlessly beaten and bleeding badly, as Israeli soldiers stood by. “It was a revenge for our movie,” he said. The film focused on the very area the attack on him took place in—the village of Susya in the Masafer Yatta region where he lives.

Odeh Hathalin, aka Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist who was a consultant on No Other Land, was recently shot and killed by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank.

Watch the trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pI2IXKtlew&t=1s

Any donations raised at this event will go to support the communities of Masafer Yatta, where the documentary was filmed. They are still under attack and the daily violence against the people continues.