The documentary film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective recently took home the Oscar for Best Documentary.
An arthouse theater in Miami Beach is facing closure for screening the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land after the city’s mayor, Steven Meiner, described the film as antisemitic.Why It Matters
Tensions between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups have been high since the beginning of the conflict, and the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term in office has spotlighted such tensions, as the administration has threatened to pull university funding over the protests and the Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Authorities in Gaza said in early February that the death toll has risen to 61,709. Some 1.9 million Palestinians have been displaced since the war began following Hamas‘ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Amnesty International.What To Know
The documentary film No Other Land was made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, and it focuses on the displacement of the Palestinian people in the West Bank, and recently took home the Oscar for Best Documentary.
The New York Times described the film as „audacious and devastating“, and said that „its subject—the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—couldn’t be more consequential, and its approach, which includes a directorial team of two Israelis and two Palestinians, feels genuinely daring and bold.“
Despite the critical acclaim the film has received, it is yet to find a distributor in the U.
