What is not about Oscar no other country and where you can watch it | Occupied news of the West Coast
No other country, which chronicle immigrants’ violence and Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes on the occupied west coast, Won an Oscar For the best documentary on Sunday night.
The film has won dozens of awards since its release last year, including at the Berlin Film Festival and the New York Film Critics Circle awards.
Here’s more about the movie, directed by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers and why the victory is significant:
What is the movie about?
The film has been produced from 2019 to 2023 and covers mostly personal footage of camcorders filmed by Palestinian activist Basel Adra (28), which documents the destruction of the Israeli army in its hometown, Masafer Yatta In a small, rough region in the southern occupation of the West Coast.
The film emphasizes the Israeli demolition of homes in the village, which the Israeli army wants to turn into a military training zone. His shots show that the Israeli army breaks the school and full of water wells with cement, so the residents cannot be renewed.
Adra made the movie with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who directed it along with Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal and Israeli filmmaker Rachel Szor.
During his speech about accepting an Oscar on Sunday night in Los Angeles, Adra said that his film “reflecting a sharp reality we endure for decades and still resist as we call the world to take serious actions to stop injustice and stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people.”
“About two months ago I became a father, and I hope to my daughter that she will not have to live the same life I live now.”
Abraham said in his speech, “When I look at the base, I see my brother. But we are unequal. We live in a regime where I am free to civil law, and Basel is under military laws that destroy lives, which he cannot control,” he said.
The film was released months after the deadly attacks under the guidance of Hamas in South Israel on October 7, 2023, which launched the war of Israel on Gaza.
At least 1,100 people were killed in attacks in Israel and about 240 people were trapped. By the time the truce came into force in Gaza on January 19, more than 48,000 Palestinians were killed in the war. It is estimated that 13,000 additional people are buried under the ruins and is assumed to be dead. Israel’s rights groups have accused of committing genocide.
#Oscars2025 🇵🇸 @Basel_adra: “We invite the world to take serious action to stop injustice and stop the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.” #Notherland pic.twitter.com/2yvfryoawc
– Palestine state (@palestine_un) March 3, 2025
Where to watch any other country
Studies and distributors in the United States refused to pick up the movie. Not even platforms to streaming in the United States have not shown interest despite being no other land the highest gross Documentary film nominated for an Oscar.
Last year Network Streaming DIV Netflix removed 24 Palestinian films from his archive, drawing charges that are Hollywood And American media suppress Palestinian voices.
Abraham told the New York Times in an interview published on February 19: “In the US, many people write us,” How can we watch it? “Therefore, we decided to make a theater edition independently, and this will now be shown in about 100 theaters in the US.”
He added that he hoped the distributor would pick up his documentary.
The current connections are small and far between. Although there are connections for rent or buying a documentary Amazon UK,, Microsoft,, Sky store and AppletvIt is unclear in which regions the documentary is available.
Is this the first time Palestinians have won an Oscar?
Yes, this is the first time the Palestinian filmmaker has won an Oscar.
In 2006, Paradise Now, made by Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and the country of origin is “Palestinian territory”. 2013., Abu-Assad’s movie Omar It is also nominated in the same category. This has marked the first time that the country of origin in the nomination has been listed as Palestine.
Since then, other Palestinian films have been nominated for awards, but they have not won.
This year, two other Palestinian films, except for no other country, have lived in short but not nominated. From Ground Zero, a collection of 22 films made in Gaza, has lived in a shortlist for the Best International Film Award Award. Jaffa orange emphasizes the dangers that Palestinians face because of Israeli control points. He lived in a shortlist for the Live Action short film category.
Four Israelites have won an Oscar so far.
In 2007, a parody of the story on the west side called Story West Bank won the Live Action short film category. It was created by Jewish American filmmaker Ari Sandel, whose father is Israel and his mother American.
Why is the victory significant?
The victory for no other country comes against the background of the intensification of Israeli attacks on the occupied West Coast since Gaza interrupted the fire. Operations of the West Coast killed dozens of Palestinians and displaced more than 40,000 people.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said At the end of January that the Israeli army had applied lessons learned during the war in Gaza to its west coast operations.
The West Coast Home is about three million Palestinians and more than 500,000 Israeli immigrants.
The 1993 ACCORD called for the freezing of the settlement, which, according to international law, were illegal, but since then they have grown sharply, especially under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The expansion of the settlement has made a solution with two countries-abundance of sovereign Palestinian state that lives side by side with Israel and harder.
There are more settlements has been announced Since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump is January 20th.
