Share Oscar-winning filmmakers’ call for peace and equality
No Other Land, a film by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers about the occupation, has won the 2025 Academy Award for Best Documentary.
A message from Standing Together about the film’s success:
Wow wow wow! This was such an exciting day for us – the Israeli-Palestinian documentary No Other Land won at the Oscars! As they accepted the award for their film, which follows life in Masafer Yatta as Israel seeks to expel Palestinians by demolishing their homes, filmmakers Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham said the film “reflects the harsh reality [Palestinians] have been enduring for decades” and that they worked together “because together our voices are stronger.”
During these 16 months of death, grief, destruction, and hate, we haven’t had many opportunities to feel pride. But just an hour after the movie was announced as winner of best documentary feature, our government began attacking it and its creators, saying that it presents a false reality, that its creators are traitors, and that it shouldn’t be screened in Israel.
So we’re planning to screen No Other Land in as many venues across the country as possible.
We know that showing the struggle of the Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta is not against the interests of Israelis. It’s a necessary step toward exposing the brutal occupation of millions of Palestinians who live without basic freedoms under military rule. Screening the movie won’t harm our society; it will strengthen it.
In the upcoming days and weeks, we will screen the movie for free in our Purple Houses – our community centers across the country – and will spread it as far as possible. We cannot look away as our government tries to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza. We must resist this brutal policy of displacement and dispossession across the land. For every one of us living here.