'No Other Land' Named Best Documentary at Cinema Eye Honors
01/09/2025 09:53 PM
“No Other Land” has been named named the best feature of 2024 at the Cinema Eye Honors, the New York-based documentary awards that were established to celebrate all aspects of nonfiction filmmaking. The show took place on Friday night at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem in New York City.
The film was made by two Israeli and two Palestinian filmmakers over the last five years during the conflict in Gaza.
“Porcelain War” won the Audience Choice Award, the one Cinema Eye category voted on by the public.
The award for directing went to Mati Diop for “Dahomey,” while the production award went to “Union.” “No Other Land” won the award for the best first feature.
“Eno” won for visual design, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” for editing and sound design, “Sugarcane” for cinematography, “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” for musical score.
The Cinema Eye Honors were founded in 2007 in New York City. In the ceremony's first 17 years, its winner has matched the Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature only four times, with "Man on Wire," "The Cove," "Citizenfour" and "American Factory." But the Cinema Eye winner has been nominated for the top nonfiction Oscar in all but three of those years.
Most of the Cinema Eye winners, including "No Other Land," “Dahomey,” “Porcelain War,” “Eno," "Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat," "The Remarkable Life of Ibelin," “Union” and “Sugarcane,” are on the Oscars 15-film shortlist in the documentary feature category.
Cinema Eye nominations are selected by three different nominating committees made up of documentary programmers, curators, film critics and writers and Cinema Eye alumni. Final voting is done by more than 1,000 members of the documentary and filmmaking community.
More to come.
Here is the list of winners:
Nonfiction Feature
“No Other Land“
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning, Julius Pollux Rothlaender and Bård Harazi Farbu
Direction
Mati Diop, “Dahomey”
Production
Mars Verrone and Samantha Curley, “Union”
Editing
Rik Chaubet, “Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat”
Cinematography
Christopher LaMarca and Emily Kassie, “Sugarcane”
Original Score
Uno Helmersson, “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin”
Sound Design
Ranko Pauković and Alek Bunic Goosse, “Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat”
Visual Design
Brendan Dawes, “Eno”
Debut Feature
“No Other Land,” Directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor
Audience Choice Prize
“Porcelain War“
Directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking
“Incident“
Directed by Bill Morrison | New Yorker
Unforgettables Honorees
Shiori Ito, “Black Box Diaries”
Brian Eno, “Eno”
Lhakpa Sherpa, “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa”
Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, “No Other Land”
Patrice Jetter, “Patrice: The Movie”
Jenna Marvin, “Queendom”
Chris Smalls, “Union”
Harper Steele, “Will and Harper”
Spotlight
“Black Snow,” Directed by Alina Simone
Heterodox
“Songs from the Hole,” Directed by Contessa Gayles
Broadcast Film
“Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.”
Nonfiction Series
“Telemarketers”
Anthology Series
“How To with John Wilson Season 3”
Broadcast Editing
“Girls State”
Broadcast Cinematography
“Ren Faire”
Nate Hurtsellers, cinematographer
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