As the conflicts dominated the daily news cycle, filmmakers behind Porcelain War and No Other Land use hope and outrage to ignite support throughout their Oscar campaigns
Oscar nominated documentary No Other Land turns hand-held cameras on the Israeli military’s destruction of Masafer Yatta, a group of farming villages in the southern West Bank, delivering harrowing footage of homes, schools and wells being bulldozed and protestors being beaten and shot.
“The U.S. supports, both financially and diplomatically, the Israeli occupation and is allowing it to continue to happen,” Abraham told Rolling Stone’s Emily Zemler.team – Leontyev, Bellomo and producer Paula DuPre Pesman – soon after they’d won the documentary award from the Directors Guild of America, had a very different tone. “The reaction we’re getting is overwhelmingly connected,” Bellomo said. “People have been feeling a sense of hope, beauty and a kinship with everyone in the film.
“The news is this inadvertent form of dehumanization,” Bellomo says. “It says, ‘This is a soldier. This is a refugee.’ It puts people in a box, and that creates a distance. We are trying to use the art of cinema to close that distance to zero.”they’re fighting – because there is so much to protect and save in beauty, art and nature,” Pesman says. “That approach feels refreshing, so our audiences are realizing they’ve looked away and that’s not okay.
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