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Deadline’s Top 10 Documentaries Of 2024
The best documentaries of 2024 as chosen by Matt Carey, documentary editor at Deadline Hollywood.
The film foregrounds the unlikely friendship between the two filmmakers who appear on camera — Palestinian Basel Adra and Israeli Yuval Abraham — without implying that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is for everyone to embrace and “just get along.” No Other Land reminds us that a peace movement still exists within Israel, however marginalized; it also underscores that no political settlement can be imagined without addressing systemic injustice. Grimonprez ties together events that might otherwise appear disparate: the nascent non-aligned movement among countries that wanted no part of the Cold War binary; the emergence of newly independent nations in Africa in the late 1950s and 1960s, especially in Congo, that suddenly tipped the balance of power in the United Nations General Assembly; what Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was attempting to express by famously banging his shoe on a desk at the UN; why the U.S. dispatched America’s greatest Black jazz musicians – Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie among them – to Africa to conceal its aims in Congo. Young filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie have crafted a documentary that reveals in personal terms the devastating impact of the abusive Indian Residential School System that operated in Canada and the U.S. for over a century.
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