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The Florida city mayor who wanted to terminate the lease of an arthouse cinema and withold funding after it screened Oscar winner No Other Land has scrapped his proposal at a council meeting on Wednesday.

Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner argued to terminate O Cinema’s lease and withhold city funding after describing the documentary to local residents as “a false, one-sided propaganda attack on the Jewish people that is not consistent with the values of our city and residents”.

However Meiner withdrew the proposal at what the Miami Herald described as a “raucous” Miami Beach City Commission meeting “where...

Front Row Filmed Entertainment has acquired Middle East and North African rights for Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, by Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham.

The Mena deal was struck by Elie Touma at Front Row and Stephanie Fuchs at Austrian-based sales company Autlook Filmsales, which is overseeing international sales.

The announcement comes amid fresh pushback against the documentary in the U.S., where a Miami mayor has been accused of censorship after he threatened to shut down an arthouse cinema showing the work.

Shot between 2019 and 2023, No Other Land captures the struggle of people living in the West Bank Palestinian villages of Masafer Yatta in the face of attempts by Israeli authorities and settlers to erase their homes and history from the map. Israeli settlers have continued to attack the area since the film’s Oscar win on March 2.

The documentary follows the journey of Adra...

Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land” has found a distributor in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region, where it is bound to have special resonance.

Prominent Dubai-based distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment has acquired Mena rights from Austrian outfit Autlook for the timely film, which is directed by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists: Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Basel Adra. The doc, chronicling the gradual demolition of Palestinian houses and villages in the Masafer Yatta region of the West Bank by Israeli military bulldozers, scored the best documentary prize at last year’s Berlin Film Festival — where it debuted — and went on to play widely on the fest circuit, winning a slew of other awards prior to the Oscar.

At the Oscars ceremony, the directors made an impassioned speech: “We call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop...

Front Row Filmed Entertainment has acquired distribution rights in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) to No Other Land, the Palestinian-Israeli feature that won best documentary at this year’s Oscars.

Front Row struck the deal with Austrian sales outfit Autlook Filmsales and said it plans to release the film “imminently” in select cinemas, followed by a premium VOD release across Mena.

Filmed from 2019 to 2023, the documentary follows activist Basel Adra as he documents the destruction of Palestinian houses and villages in the Masafer Yatta region of the West Bank by Israeli miliary bulldozers. Adra’s efforts to raise...

Front Row Filmed Entertainment has acquired the distribution rights for the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena).

The agreement was finalized through negotiations between Elie Touma of Front Row and Stephanie Fuchs from the Austria-based sales company Autlook Filmsales.

Directed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, No Other Land chronicles Adra’s journey as he examines the devastation of his hometown, designated for military training. His efforts to raise awareness gain momentum with Abraham’s support.

The documentary made its debut at the 2023 Berlinale, winning the Panorama Audience Award as well as the prestigious Berlinale Documentary Award. Since its premiere, No Other Land has garnered a remarkable 68 awards at various film festivals and has been recognized by the Boston Society of Film Critics, European Film Awards and Gotham Awards, ultimately taking home the award for best documentary feature at the 2025 Oscars.

Updated with statements from O Cinema and International Documentary Association/Art House Convergence and details of meeting to vote on the cancellation of the cinema’s lease: The mayor of Miami Beach, Fl is threatening to shut down an arthouse movie theater for showing the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, branding the film as “antisemitic.”

Mayor Steven Meiner issued a draft resolution calling for his city to terminate a lease agreement with O Cinema, located at Old City Hall, a property owned by the city. The resolution, to be debated at a city commission meeting Wednesday, March 19, also would eliminate about $40,000 in grants provided by Miami Beach to the nonprofit that runs the theater. O Cinema began screening No Other Land last Friday, five days after it won Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards.

The film, directed by a collective of four Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, provides a ground-level...

“No Other Land” filmmakers Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham revised their official directors statement after being criticized by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (Pacbi), a watchdog group, for not explicitly naming Israel as the perpetrator of “ethnic cleansing, settler-colonialism and apartheid.”

The group’s lengthy response to the film was published March 3, the day after it won Best Documentary at the 97th annual Academy Awards. As an affiliate of the Bds Movement of boycotts, divestments and economic sanctions against Israel, the group said the film was in violation of Bds guidelines and weighed a boycott.

The revised statement from Adra, who is a Palestinian journalist, and Abraham, an Israeli journalist, was updated to read: “We’re making this film together, as a Palestinian-Israeli collective, because we desperately want to stop the Israeli-led ongoing ethnic cleansing of the community of Masafer Yatta, and because we...

Thanks to its victory at the Oscars and a passionate acceptance speech from its filmmakers, the searing documentary “No Other Land” has drawn more attention than ever both to itself and to the ongoing crisis between Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank.

And that has made it a political lightning rod that has drawn criticism from Israel and, perhaps unexpectedly, from some pro-Palestinian activist organizations.

Filmed from 2019 to just days after the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, “No Other Land” documents the destruction of Palestinian homes in Masafer Yatta, a collection of West Bank hamlets which was declared a “closed military training zone” in 1980 and which in recent years has been targeted by Israeli military and settlers.

The film focuses on Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s efforts to document the destruction, as well as his relationship with Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham, who enjoys a far greater degree of freedom than Adra.

The long and winding road to the Oscars culminated in triumph for No Other Land as Best Documentary Feature and The Only Girl in the Orchestra as Best Documentary Short.

On the new episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey react to the Academy Awards on Sunday night. No Other Land, set in the occupied West Bank, brought the first ever Oscar win to Palestinian filmmakers – Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal – who made the documentary in tandem with Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.

As they headed to the stage to receive their awards, the filmmakers were greeted effusively by an Oscar-nominated star wearing a Free Palestine pin (we reveal who). In their acceptance speeches, Adra and Abraham spoke fervently for Palestinian rights and against U.S. policy in the region, which they said was blocking a path to peace. We discuss the...

The Palestinian-Israeli documentary No Other Land won Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards, with the filmmakers using their acceptance speeches to call out U.S. foreign policy in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The film, created by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, chronicles the destruction of Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank, and the unlikely alliance that forms between Palestinian journalist and co-director Basel Adra and Israeli journalist and co-director Yuval Abraham.

Adra began his speech with a deeply personal message: “About two months ago, I became a father, and my hope for my daughter is that she will not have to live the same life I live now, always fearing settler violence and home demolitions and fearing displacement that my community is living and facing every day.” He continued with a plea to the global audience: “We call on the world to stop the...

The 97th Academy Awards, held on March 2, 2025, had it all, glamour, gasps, and Guy Pearce clapping like his life depended on it. Independent films stole the show, proving once again that Hollywood loves an underdog until they start making too much money.

The big winner of the night? Anora, which waltzed away with five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director for Sean Baker, and Best Actress for Mikey Madison.

A still of Mikey Madison from Anora | Credits: Neon

And in true Oscars fashion, the ceremony squeezed in some serious moments, reflecting on the California wildfires and other recent events, because nothing says Hollywood like discussing climate disasters in a room full of people wearing million-dollar outfits.

No Other Land Wins and Guy Pearce goes wild over it A still from No Other Land | Credits: Higloss Entertainment

The award for Best Documentary Feature went to No Other Land, a deeply powerful...

The film No Other Landjust won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 97th Academy Awards, marking the first time a Palestinian filmmaker has ever won an Oscar. The documentary is co-directed by award-winning Palestinian filmmaker, lawyer, and activistBasel Adra alongside Yuval Abraham, an Israeli filmmaker and investigative journalist from Jerusalem,Rachel Szor, an Israeli cinematographer, editor, and director from Jerusalem, and Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian photographer, filmmaker, and farmer from Susya. Selena Gomez and Samuel L. Jackson gave the award to the filmmakers. Despite all this, the film is not streaming in the U.S., and doesn't even have a distributor here.

The documentary is an intimate portrait of West Bank families who suffer constant destruction, surveillance, harassment, and threats from Israeli military forces and settlers. No Other Land is also the recipient of numerous awards, including the Best Documentary award at the Berlin International Film Festival, but...

Sex workers, US foreign policy and Jeremy Strong were among the topics mentioned in this year’s Oscars speeches.

While accepting the award for best documentary, No Other Land filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra criticised the Israeli government in what was the evening’s most overtly poltical speech.

“[This film] reflects the harsh reality that we have been enduring for decades as we call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people,” said co-director Adra, who is a Palestinian activist.

Meanwhile, Israeli journalist and co-director Abraham called out the...

Despite this year being highly political so far with Donald Trump back in the White House, the 2025 Oscars were surprisingly the opposite.

Hollywood’s biggest night typically offers several moments of political-focused commentary, whether it be from the host, presenters or winners. However, this year, most avoided commenting on the current tense political climate, other than minor remarks sprinkled throughout the Sunday night ceremony.

Since Trump’s second presidency got underway in January, he has been publicly scrutinized for his controversial agenda and sweeping executive orders affecting immigration, climate change, federal diversity programs and transgender rights, among many others.

While host Conan O’Brien kept his opening monologue apolitical, he found a moment later in the ceremony for a quick joke about Trump. “You know, Anora is having a good night. That’s great news! Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian,...

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.

The quartet of Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal, who are Palestinian, and Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, both Israelis, took the stage, with Adra and Abraham speaking on behalf of the filmmaking collective.

“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 7th, which must be freed,” said Abraham. Then he referenced the different conditions in which he as an Israeli citizen lives, versus Adra, who is subject to Israeli military rule.

“When I look at Basel, I see my brother, but we are unequal,” he said.

During their 2025 Oscars speeches for the best documentary feature for No Other Land, the filmmakers called out U.S. foreign policy in Israeli-Palestinian relations.

No Other Land, made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, depicts the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta territory by Israeli soldiers and the alliance that develops between Palestinian journalist and co-director Basel Adra, and Israeli journalist and co-director Yuval Abraham.

Adra began his Oscars acceptance speech on Sunday, saying, “About two months ago, I became a father and my hope for my daughter is that she will not have to live the same life I live now, always fearing Settler violence and home demolitions and fearing displacement that my community is living and facing every day.”

He added: “We call on the world to stop the injustice and stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.”

Abraham continued, “We made this film, Palestinians and Israelis,...

No Other Land pulled off a major victory Sunday night, winning the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature despite being the film that no studio wanted. The Palestinian-Israeli doc shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers — and was deemed too politically charged to secure a U.S. distribution deal.

Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor, the film chronicles a developing alliance between Adra, a Palestinian activist, and Abraham, an Israeli journalist. Since winning the Best Documentary prize at last year's Berlin Film Festival, No Other Land racked up a slew of awards including top honors from the International Documentary Association, Cinema Eye Honors, Gothams, and the National Society of Film Critics.

"Two months ago I became a father and my hope is my daughter will not have to live the the same life I'm living now — always fearing home demolitions...

As directors Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor took the stage to accept the best documentary Oscar for their work on “No Other Land,” they took the opportunity — in one of the only overtly political moments of the telecast — to make a robust plea for “a political solution” to the war in Gaza.

“We call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people,” said Adra, a Palestinian journalist and activist. “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. … ‘No Other Land’ reflects the harsh reality that we have been enduring for decades and still resist.”

Abraham, an Israeli journalist, spoke at length about why their film was a collaboration between Israelis and Palestinians. “We made this film,...

Beating out fellow nominees “Sugarcane,” “Porcelain War,” “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” and “Black Box Diaries,” the Palestinian/Israeli doc “No Other Land” has won Best Documentary Feature at the 97th Academy Awards. Helmed by the film’s two central figures, Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, along with Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor, the tragic exposé reveals the long-held inequities faced by Palestinians in the community of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank.

As Adra and his family constantly have their home and belongings ripped from them amidst the Israeli Defense Forces’s continued encroachment and settlement of their land, the young Palestinian man is forced to decide between a submissive life of constant uncertainty or risking it all by acting in opposition to this oppression. An outsider to Adra’s community, Abraham works to fight alongside these individuals and end their suffering, only to discover that this is not...

The 2025 Oscars race for Best Documentary Feature is one of the year’s most difficult-to-predict categories due to inconsistencies at the precursor awards. The winner of this year’s BAFTA, Producers Guild, and Critics Choice Award was Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story — which isn’t even an Oscar nominee. The leader in Gold Derby’s odds is No Other Land, which wasn’t eligible for the PGA or DGA Awards due to its lack of a U.S. distribution deal. So why is it out front? And does Black Box Diaries, Porcelain War, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, or Sugarcane have the best shot at pulling off an upset? Let’s break down the category.

Frontrunner: No Other Land

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Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor, the film chronicles a developing alliance between Adra, a Palestinian activist, and Abraham, an Israeli journalist. Since...

“No Other Land,” the Palestinian-Israeli Oscar-nominated documentary, has secured a U.K. broadcast deal with Channel 4.

The film depicts the Israeli government’s efforts to force Palestinians from their homes in Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank, and last year won the Berlinale Documentary Award and the Panorama Audience Award.

The timely film, which shows the gradual demolition of houses and entire villages by the Israeli military’s bulldozers, has also played in a slew of other prestigious events including the New York Film Festival and won the top prizes from the New York Film Critics Circle and the International Documentary Assn.

This is the first announced TV deal on “No Other Land,” which is directed by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists – Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Basel Adra.

The project began in 2019, when Adra met Jerusalem-based journalists Abraham and Szor, who were reporting...

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.

In an interview with Deadline, Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham said Trump’s idea amounted to “ethnically cleansing Gaza… It is so irresponsible, it’s so immoral.”

“It’s shocking,” added Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra, who along with Abraham make up half the quartet of Israeli and Palestinian directors nominated for No Other Land, which is set in the Israeli occupied West Bank. “This is a stupid thing to say, what he’s saying about Gaza, like take 2 million people and to build for them a land here or there, or just to take them out. And sometimes he said that they would come back [to Gaza] and sometimes saying they will never come back.”

Adra continued, “It’s insane and a crazy thing.

No Other Land.The poster for No Other Land (2024) shows Palestinian activist Basel Adra lying on a rock-studded hill, his handheld camera on the ground nearby. Adra’s gaze is set on the earth immediately in front of him; he faces away from the sun, his shadow collecting where his hand picks at blades of grass. We can’t see his face, not clearly. A bulldozer traverses the horizon line in the distance. Native, settler. The Palestinian, his body still, has his hands, his camera, his witness. The Zionist machine has the power to destroy—and, however unlikely, the power to change course.The film the poster advertises, produced by a collective of Palestinians and Israelis, is a documentary about Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian villages that make up Masafer Yatta, under Zionist military occupation since 1967. In the 1980s, Masafer Yatta was declared a “firing zone” by the Israeli government,...

“No Other Land” is finally coming to U.S. theaters for viewers to experience.

The documentary is made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective and showcases the daily lives of Palestinians struggling through home demolitions, displacement and restriction of movement. The film was made over the course of the last five years and was named the best feature of 2024 at the Cinema Eye Honors, the New York-based documentary awards that were established to celebrate all aspects of nonfiction filmmaking.

Here is what you need to know about where and when to watch the documentary.

When does “No Other Land” come out?

“No Other Land” opened in theaters on Friday, Feb. 7.

Is “No Other Land” streaming or in theaters?

Right now “No Other Land” is only available to watch in theaters so you’re going to have to buy a movie ticket to see it. When the documentary lands on a streaming service...

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.

The doc is written, directed, produced and edited by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli activists and filmmakers — Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. It premiered at Berlin, winning Best Documentary, followed by a widely decorated festival sweep. It sits at 100% with Critics on Rotten Tomatoes (57 reviews). Deadline’s Matthew Carey interviews the filmmakers here.

The release started circulating against the backdrop of the brutal Israel-Hamas war, currently in a period of ceasefire. It predates the war but explores root causes of enmity as the filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages.

Over a period of five years (2019–23), Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian...

No Other Land, the Palestinian-Israeli doc that shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, was among this morning’s 2025 Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Feature despite its lack of a U.S. distribution deal.

Directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor, the film chronicles a developing alliance between Adra, a Palestinian activist, and Abraham, an Israeli journalist. Since winning the Best Documentary prize at last year’s Berlin Film Festival, No Other Land has racked up a slew of awards including top honors from the International Documentary Association, Cinema Eye Honors, Gothams, and the National Society of Film Critics. Still, the film has yet to be released in America.

“Well, the film has distribution all over the world, and there’s a really big demand for it in the United States, so you would expect a big distributor to jump on board,...

Gold Derby’s top news stories for Jan. 10, 2025 2025 Cinema Eye Honors announces winners

On Thursday, Cinema Eye announced this year’s documentary and nonfiction winners at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem. No Other Land, the war doc made by four young Palestinian and Isreali filmmakers, won three trophies including Best Nonfiction Feature. Directors Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor shared the award for Debut Feature, while Abraham and Adra were also recognized as Unforgettables for their onscreen appearances. No Other Land is currently the Oscar frontrunner to win Best Documentary Feature. Here is the complete list of winners for the 2025 Cinema Eye Honors:

Nonfiction Feature: No Other Land

Direction: Mati Diop, Dahomey

Editing: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Rik Chaubet)

Production: Union (Bretty Story, Stephen Mang, Mars Verrone, Samantha Curley, and Martin Dicicco)

Cinematography: Sugarcane (Christopher Lamarca and Emily Kassie)

Original Music...

“It’s time to distribute ‘No Other Land.'”

For anyone confused over the message being sent about Zionism in “The Brutalist,” the film’s writer/director, Brady Corbet, made his stance clear last night while accepting the award for Best Film from the New York Film Critics Circle. After offering praise to his fellow filmmakers, including Best Director winner RaMell Ross, Jesse Eisenberg, and his “hero” Mike Leigh, Corbet closed his speech with the direct, concise plea above.

Many are in agreement over this sentiment, particularly the filmmakers behind “No Other Land,” a Palestinian/Israeli collective made up of activists Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Basel Adra. Speaking in a recent interview with Variety, Abraham and Adra detailed the difficult path they’ve found getting the film seen on a wide scale in America and how it’s become “completely political” despite their film just trying to...

Even as it continues to seek U.S. distribution, “No Other Land” is continuing its remarkable awards season run. The latest win for the documentary, made by a Palestinian/Israeli collective that includes directors and activists Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, and Basel Adra: a trio of awards at this year’s Cinema Eye Honors.

At the 18th annual Cinema Eye Honors, which took place Thursday, January 9 at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem, the film walked away with three awards, including Cinema Eye’s top prize, Outstanding Nonfiction Filmmaking. Directors Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor also received the award for Debut Feature, with Abraham and Adra also Honored as Unforgettables for their appearance on screen in the film.

This year’s nominees for the Cinema Eye Honors, which honors the best in documentary fiction and TV, included a healthy crop...

“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.

Yet, while it has been picked up for distribution in 24 countries...

In the past 10 days, the documentary No Other Land has surged to Oscar frontrunner status after racking up an impressive array of awards: top honors from the Gotham Awards, critics groups in Los Angeles and New York, the IDA Awards, the European Film Awards, and an award from the National Board of Review.

The feature directed by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers offers a rare ground-level view of what life is like for Palestinian villagers in a rural West Bank area who have faced an expulsion order from the Israel Defense Forces that goes back decades. The Idf claims it needs the land as a training zone, but the filmmakers found a document in Israeli government archives suggesting that was a ruse and the real purpose was to push out Palestinians in favor of Jewish settlers.

Two of the directors who appear on camera throughout the film – Israeli...

With international concern naturally focused on Gaza over the past year, still less attention than usual has been paid to the conditions of life in the other remaining Palestinian territory, the West Bank. Documentary No Other Land, a collaborative work from directors Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor, looks at a critical period in the lives of people from Masafer Yatta, and through this explores a myriad issues affecting those trying to cope under Israeli occupation.

Adra was himself born of Masafer Yatta, which, for the uninitiated, was a community of 20 villages in the West Bank, inhabited primarily by farmers. His first memory, he states at the outset, is of being woken up in the middle of the night by a bright light as soldiers came to arrest his activist parents. Two other things happened around that time. The people in the community, like many others around.

Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez triumphed at this year’s European Film Awards, taking home five prizes including best film at tonight’s (December 7) ceremony in Lucerne.

The Mexico-set musical drama, about a feared drug lord who undergoes gender-affirming surgery, clinched the best film, director, screenwriter and actress prizes, in addition to its previously announced editing prize.

Receiving the first prize of the evening, for European director, Audiard said he had prepared no fewer than three speeches. “I was being very optimistic,” he joked. Accepting the best director award he quoted British paediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott’s famous phrase:...

There are moments in No Other Land, the award-winning Palestinian-­Israeli documentary about the Israeli demolition of villages in Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, where the despair is overwhelming. We see the weary cynicism of a mother desperate to build a room for her son paralysed by an Israeli soldier’s bullet, and the exhausted desperation of the film’s protagonist (and co-director) Basel Adra, who has been documenting the destruction of his community for most of his life.

“People ask a lot where I get the hope or strength,” says Adra. “I don’t know if it’s strength.

Tricia Tuttle, the director of the Berlin International Film Festival, has said statements made by No Other Land director Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra at the closing ceremony of this year’s festival were not antisemitic, and “any discourse which suggests this… creates danger” for the film’s four directors.

In a post on the Berlinale’s Instagram page, Tuttle addressed the latest controversy around the film, which opens in German cinemas today viaImmerGuteFilme.

In its listing page for the film, the Berlin city website Berlin.de had described No Other Land as “exhibiting anti-Semitic tendencies”. This was highlighted by Abraham on X on Tuesday,...

This fall, dozens of great movies were showcased at the top film festivals across the globe, and many of those that screened at Venice, Telluride, Toronto, New York, and AFI Fest will shape the awards season over the next three months. The very best reviewed of these is “No Other Land,” a film that would appear destined for an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary. If only it could find a distributor.

What “No Other Land” documents, with a clear-eyed bravery of filmmakers willing to risk their lives and freedom to capture it, is how rural Palestinian communities, that have existed for generations in the West Bank, are unable to live the simplest existence. We watch their homes get knocked down by the Israeli military, and how as they desperately try to salvage their possessions they are faced with the impossible decision to flee the only life they’ve ever known,...

The nominees for this year’s European Film Awards have been unveiled, with “Emilia Pérez,” “The Substance” and “The Room Next Door” all up for best European film.

Movies also in the running for the ceremony’s top award — which was expanded this year to documentaries and animated features — include Lina Soualem’s “Bye Bye Tiberias”; Mati Diop’s “Dahomey”; Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow”; Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Basel Adra and Hamdan Balla’s “No Other Land”; Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”; and Maura Delpero’s “Vermiglio.”

“Emilia Pérez” and “The Substance” lead the nominees overall, with each film scoring four respective nominations. The winners will be revealed during an awards ceremony on Dec. 7 in Lucerne, Switzerland.

See all the nominees below.

European Film

“Bye Bye Tiberias” — documentary film, directed by Lina Soualem, produced by Jean-Marie Nizan, Guillaume Malandrin and Ossama Bawardi

“Dahomey” — documentary film, directed by Mati Diop,...

As Never Look Away, this year’s documentary about camerawoman Margaret Moth, reminds us, it wasn’t long ago that the main barrier to the world at large understanding the human cost of geopolitical atrocities was how hard it was to actually see them. Now, of course, it’s never...

“I am Israeli, Basel is Palestinian, and in two days we go back to a land where are not equal.” So said Yuval Abraham as part of an acceptance speech at this year’s Berlinale, where No Other Land won two awards, including the top documentary prize. Standing alongside Basel Adra, another of the four credited directors on the project, he continued: “This situation of apartheid between us, this inequality, has to end.”

A clip of the speech quickly made the rounds in Israel’s media, with prominent outlets seizing on Abraham’s choice of the word “apartheid” to declare the speech antisemitic. Despite the death threats that he faced, the journalist and filmmaker stood by both the speech and the documentary. If their detractors thought that their criticism would bury No Other Land, they were sorely mistaken, as the hostility backfired. The film’s profile only grew from the...

The Apple TV+ documentary “Girls State” and the HBO doc series “Ren Faire” led all projects in nominations in the Cinema Eye Honors broadcast categories, which were announced on Thursday in Los Angeles.

“Girls State” was nominated in the Broadcast Film category and also for its editing and cinematography. “Ren Faire” was also nominated in those last two categories, as well as for Nonfiction Series.

Other broadcast films and series with multiple nominations included Netflix’s “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders,” Apple’s “The Enfield Poltergeist,” HBO’s “Telemarketers” and National Geographic’s “Photographer.”

At its annual Cinema Eye Fall Lunch at Redbird in downtown Los Angeles, the New York-based organization also announced the Audience Choice Award Long List, 16 films that will compete for the audience-voted award; 11 semi-finalists in the short doc category; and “The Unforgettables,” its annual list of the year’s most interesting documentary subjects.

The Audience...

Now that almost all of the year’s documentaries have premiered, it’s clear that there will be none more essential than Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor’s No Other Land. Premiering at Berlinale earlier this year where it won the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film, the film from the Palestinian-Israeli collective takes an intimate, harrowing look at the day-to-day destruction and violence inflicted on Palestinian lives in the West Bank. Still somehow without distribution, the NYFF selection will still get a one-week qualifying run at NYC’s Film at Lincoln Center starting next week, to be eligible for various critics and awards bodies list, hopefully leading to greater attention. Ahead of the release, a new trailer has now arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “This eye-opening, vérité-style documentary, made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years, provides a...

“This is a film that I love dearly. I think we use the word urgent a little bit not with as much intention as we should. And I think a film like this really occupies that word,” said Oscar winner Laura Poitras (“Citizenfour“), introducing a special screening of the documentary “No Other Land” at Scandinavia House in New York City on October 14. The film chronicles the efforts of the Israeli military and settlers to displace the Palestinian population of the Masafer Yatta region of the West Bank, as seen from the point of view of Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who co-directed the film with Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor. Abraham and Adra participated in a virtual Q&a from Israel and the West Bank, respectively, moderated by Oscar nominee Yance Ford (“Strong Island“).

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Gints Zilbalodis’ animated feature Flow, Latvia’s submission for the Oscars, won the €2,000 Golden Athena award for best film at the Athens International Film Festival (October 2-14).

The film, which also collected the audience award, premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section earlier this year and has since won prizes at Annecy, Melbourne, and Guadalajara, and has been shortlisted for the upcoming European film awards.

It centres on a cat who teams up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog after a flood destroys his home. Local theatrical distributor and platform Cinobo picked up Greek rights.

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Exclusive: The Israeli and Palestinian directors of No Other Land, the award-winning documentary set in the West Bank, are abandoning a U.S. tour and heading home as violence explodes in the region.

Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor cut short what was to have been a month-long visit. (Fellow director Hamdan Billal stayed back in the West Bank and didn’t make the U.S. trip). Adra, a Palestinian from the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta, and Abraham, a Jewish Israeli from the city of Be’er Sheva in Southern Israel, participated in a Q&a at the New York Film Festival last Sunday. They were to have taken part in a second Q&a Tuesday night, hours after Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel in apparent retaliation for Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon. That attack, coupled with Israel...

New York film festival: a Palestinian-Israeli collective have documented violence and displacement in a damning new film that offers a stark insider’s look at the conflict

It’s difficult to review No Other Land, a documentary by a group of Palestinian and Israeli activist film-makers on the destruction of villages in the West Bank, on a formal level. The usual rubric for evaluating non-fiction cinema does not really extend to films whose existence was actively challenged throughout filming, whose makers’ equipment and livelihood were constantly at risk. A good portion of the film, which was selected for this year’s New York film festival and won best documentary at the Berlin film festival (to politicized charges of antisemitism and death threats against its makers), is composed of amateur video footage by Basel Adra, who began filming the Israeli occupation of his village in Masafer Yatta at the age of 15, in the name of evidence.

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Ron Perlman is a scientist whose concerns may not be as crazy as some think in Succubus. Perlman is one of the most celebrated character actors throughout his near-50-year career, having starred in everything from The Adventures of Huck Finn and Alien Resurrection to his Golden Globe-winning turn in the Beauty and the Beast TV show, Batman: The Animated Series and the animated Teen Titans show, among many others. Perlman is perhaps best known for his frequent collaborations with Guillermo del Toro, which began with 1993's Cronos and continued with Blade II, the Hellboy movies, Pacific Rim, Nightmare Alley and Pinocchio.

Perlman stars in Succubus as Dr. Orion Zephyr, an astrophysicist whose career is thrown into turmoil when a series of scandals, including his research into the titular subject, leads to him being fired. Upon learning that a man named Chris,...

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A man in the midst of trying to rebuild his family finds himself in a nightmarish fight for survival in Succubus. The horror movie hails from writer/director R.J. Daniel Hanna, best known for previously helming the Adina Porter and Uzo Aduba-starring Miss Virginia, as well as the Matthew Modine-starring sports drama Hard Miles and working as an editor on a variety of other titles, including the 2020 horror-thriller What Lies Below, led by The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power star Ema Horvath.

Succubus centers on Chris, a seemingly mild-mannered father currently working through a trial separation from his wife as he tries to salvage their marriage. From the advice of Eddie, his jock-like best friend, Chris creates a profile on a dating website and matches with a woman named Adra, who claims to be in trouble while...

Written and directed by R.J. Daniel Hanna, Succubus is now available from Shout! Studios and we have an exclusive preview you can watch right now!

"Coached by his over-sexed friend Eddie, Chris, a new father, joins the StarCrossed dating app “just to see what’s out there,” and eventually comes to the conclusion he should probably rekindle things with his estranged wife. But when he matches with Adra, a seductive young woman with a mysterious past, his curiosity gets the better of him, and he finds himself getting sucked into her world even as his own life falls apart. As Chris, Eddie, and Adra’s stalker, Dr. Zephyr circle her, Adra’s power grows, finally revealing her harrowing true nature."

Written and Directed by R.J. Daniel Hanna Produced by Todd Slater, Anna Elizabeth James, Ari Novak, Ron Perlman, R.J. Daniel Hanna Executive Producers: John Rhodes, Brian Scofield, Jennifer Ambrose,...

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Get ready for an intense horror thriller experience with a tinge of eroticism in Succubus. Written and directed by R.J. Daniel Hanna, the horror thriller film is a blend of horror and mythology with a modern twist. It also tries to comment on the nature of technology and how we incorporate it into our lives through very heavy-handed scenes.

Succubus revolves around a new father going through marital separations as he joins some dating apps after taking his friend’s advice. Soon he meets a mysterious young woman who seduces and manipulates him until he finds himself caught in the most horrifying circumstances imaginable.

Succubus – VOD & Streaming Release Date (When & Where To Watch It?) Credit – Shout! Studios

Shout! Studios acquired the right to release Succubus in all forms in North America in May 2023. After that, the only question was if Shout!

Shout! Studios, in collaboration with A Kiss and Tale Productions, Convoke Media, and Pixium Film Group has announced the upcoming release of Succubus, a “gruesome thriller” that’s headed to VOD outlets for purchase and/or rental beginning September 24, 2024.

Written and directed by R.J. Daniel Hanna, Succubus boasts a talented cast of Brendan Bradley, Rachel Cook, Olivia Applegate, Derek Smith, Emily Kincaid, Rosanna Arquette and Ron Perlman.

Produced by Todd Slater, Anna Elizabeth James, Ari Novak, Ron Perlman, and R.J. Daniel Hanna, Succubus follows a young father going through a marital separation, joins a dating app, and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman…whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he could have ever imagined.

Coached by his over-sexed friend Eddie, Chris, a new father, joins the StarCrossed dating app “just to see what’s out there,” and eventually comes...