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‘No Other Land’ Directors Use Oscar Speech to Call on World ‘to Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian People’
While accepting the best documentary Oscar for "No Other Land," directors took the opportunity to make a robust plea for "a political solution" to the war in Gaza.
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 to make a robust plea for “a political solution” to the war in Gaza. In the face of the destruction that occurs and the lives lost, Palestinian activist Adra and Israeli journalist Abraham form an unexpected friendship. We’re obviously talking about the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, and it’s very ugly…The conversation in the United States appears to be far less nuanced — there is much less space for this kind of criticism, even when it comes in the form of a film.”
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