Left to right: Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham pose with their Oscars for ‘No Other Land’ at the 2025 Academy Awards. “No Other Land” is running into the same barriers other Palestinian films have. Palestinian films have encountered additional barriers. Indeed, an earlier film that also documents Palestinian protests against Israeli land expropriation, 5 Broken Cameras, was a finalist for best documentary at the 2013 Academy Awards. Since there is no sovereign Palestinian state—and many countries and organizations have not recognized the state of Palestine—the question of how to categorize Palestinian films has been hard to resolve.