Two campaigns against the film create an unlikely alliance between defenders and critics of Israel who say “No Other Land” is worth watching.

When No Other Land won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary feature, corporate media outlets didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet. The film captures Palestinians’ struggle to survive in the occupied West Bank,

Palestinian documentary about forced displacement in the West Bank said U.S. distributors’ reluctance is “completely political.”

The film tells the story of Palestinian activists fighting to protect their communities from demolition by the Israeli military.

The title of the Oscar-winning documentary, No Other Land, reflects the sad reality that these people have no place else to go. The residents are mostly goat and sheep herders, and endure snow-blanketed winters and oppressive summer heat.

The 2025 Academy Award for Documentary Feature Film was handed over to No Other Land, a political record keeping — and personal account — of the occupation and destruction of the West Bank village Masafer Yatta by Israeli Occupation Forces.

No Other Land” follows Basel Adra as he risks arrest to document the destruction of Masafer Yatta at the southern edge of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, joined by his co-director Yuval Abraham.

By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "No Other Land," a film showing the alliance that develops between a Palestinian activist and an Israeli journalist amid their peoples' conflict on the occupied West Bank,

It is the rare Oscar winner that has yet to be picked up by a distributor. The screening is presented by Cinema Detroit, which has been working as a pop-up since closing its Midtown location in 2023.

Thanks to its victory at the Oscars and a passionate acceptance speech from its filmmakers, the searing documentary “No Other Land” has drawn more attention than ever both to itself and to the ongoing crisis between Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank.