‘No Other Land’ documentary directors plead for an end to Israeli-Palestinian conflict during Oscars speech
Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, two of the four directors of ‘No Other Land’, pleaded for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in their Oscars acceptance speech.
“No Other Land,” a portrait of a West Bank village under Israeli military occupation, won the Oscar for best documentary feature at the 97th Academy Awards on Sunday. In their acceptance speech, two of the film’s four directors pleaded for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“About two months ago, I became a father, and my hope to my daughter [is] she will not have to live the same life I am living now,” said co-director Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist who is from Masafer Yatta, a region of the West Bank.
Adra went on to describe the issues faced by his village, including home demolitions and displacement. “We call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people,” he said.
Yuval Abraham, an Israeli investigative journalist who co-directed “No Other Land,” described Adra as his “brother” but decried that they are considered “unequal.”
“We live in a regime where I am free under civilian law and Basel is under military laws that destroy his life,” Abraham said.
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