No Other Land

Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's No Other Land won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2025 (the first Palestinian-Israeli documentary to win the category) alongside the Berlinale Panorama Audience Award and the Berlinale Documentary Award in 2024. The four-person directing collective (two Palestinian-West-Bank journalists, two Israeli activists) assembled the film from approximately five years of footage gathered between 2019 and 2023.

The Palestinian activist Basel Adra and the Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham team up to film the slow-motion destruction of Masafer Yatta, a cluster of West Bank villages in the South Hebron Hills which the Israeli military authorities have classified since the 1980s as a closed firing zone, allowing the gradual demolition of the villages' homes, schools and water infrastructure across the years. The film is constructed largely from Adra's own first-person footage of the demolitions as they took place, alongside Abraham's professional journalistic-investigative documentation.

The film became politically consequential during a particularly charged period in Palestinian-Israeli political-cultural discourse. The four-person directorial collective's joint Oscar acceptance speech at the 2025 ceremony was widely covered as one of the most-discussed acceptance moments of the year. Subsequent post-Oscar reporting on the directors' continuing physical safety and the West Bank communities they documented has continued to be substantial.