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Outstanding craftsmanship and international voices: the 5 films up for best documentary at the 2025 Oscars

The Academy Awards represent the screen industry’s biggest annual global recognition for the very best of moviemaking. And in these troubled times, many recognise the power of documentaries to transform the world for the better.

The Conversation

A Palestinian film is an Oscars favorite − so why is it so hard to see?

For many low-budget, independent films, an Oscar nomination is a golden ticket.

The Conversation

No Other Land film-makers denounce Trump’s Gaza plan: ‘A crazy thing’

Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra, whose documentary is up for an Oscar, have called out the US president’s plan of ethnically cleansing the region

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Jacques Audiard’s genre-bending Emilia Pérez wins best film at European Film Awards

Musical also claims prizes for best director, screenplay, editing and best actress for Karla Sofía Gascón

The Guardian - UK

No Other Land review – stark, unflinching West Bank documentary

This award-winning account by Palestinian and Israeli film-makers of the brutal expulsion of Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army is essential viewing

The Guardian - UK

‘The UK should know what their government is supporting’: the Israeli and Palestinian film-makers shining a light on West Bank violence

No Other Land has won its directors awards – but also forced them to leave their families facing the dangers depicted

The Guardian - UK

No Other Land review – an Israeli and Palestinian’s remarkable relationship

When Palestinian villages were bulldozed to make way for the Israeli military, it brought together a film-maker and a journalist from across the divide

The Guardian - UK

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A Palestinian-Israeli collective made one of 2024's most lauded docs. Will it be released in the US?

Basel Adra, a Palestinian, and Yuval Abraham, an Israeli, spent five years making a movie that depicts daily life in Adra’s village under Israeli occupation

The Independent UK

No Other Land review – powerful Israel-Palestine documentary is essential viewing

A Palestinian-Israeli collective have documented violence and displacement in a damning new film that offers a stark insider’s look at the conflict

The Guardian - US

Israeli director receives death threats after officials call Berlin film festival ‘antisemitic’

Yuval Abraham criticises German officials, saying statement devalues term ‘antisemitism’ and puts Jewish lives in danger

The Guardian - UK

German minister says she clapped Israeli film-maker, not his Palestinian colleague, at Berlinale

Call for Green politician to resign amid row over politically charged closing ceremony at film festival

The Guardian - UK

Germany Probes Berlin Film Festival In Anti-Semitism Row

German officials will investigate how Berlin film festival winners made "one-sided" comments condemning Israel's war in Gaza at the awards gala, a government spokeswoman said on Monday.

International Business Times

Mati Diop’s documentary Dahomey wins top prize at Berlin film festival

Film about first major return of looted treasures to Africa beat the work of several veteran directors

The Guardian - UK

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