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‘No Other Land,’ Set In Occupied West Bank, Earns Oscar Documentary Feature Nomination; International Stories Dominate Category
The 2025 Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Feature include 'No Other Land,' a film set in the occupied West Bank.
The film offers a ground level view of life for Palestinians in the rural area of Masafer Yatta, where West Bank villagers live under constant threat of expulsion from their homes by Israel Defense Forces who claim their land for a military training zone. All of the directors recognized in the feature documentary category are first-time nominees, including Itō; Johan Grimonprez for Soundtrack; No Other Land ’s quartet of Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, and Hamdan Ballal; Bellomo and Leontyev for Porcelain War, and the Canadian duo of Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for Sugarcane. The division of The Walt Disney Company has scored nominations for Best Documentary Feature in recent years for Bobi Wine: The People’s President, Fire of Love, The Cave, winning in 2018 for Free Solo.
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