“No Other Land” won Best Documentary at this year’s Academy Awards despite having less cultural influence and fewer viewers than the hit DailyWire+ documentary, “Am I Racist?”
The past two winners in the category include “20 Days in Mariupol” and “Navalny,” which were both critical of Russia. This year’s winning selection was made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four activists seeking to paint Israel as the aggressor in the ongoing conflict by highlighting the destruction of a West Bank village.
During his acceptance speech, Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham blamed United States foreign policy for the lack of resolution in the conflict.
Producers had to self-distribute the film in the United States after no major studios picked it up. “No Other Land” was the highest grossing documentary of all the nominees yet earned only $420,000 at the domestic box office.
