A year of cinema, brought together: to celebrate the new year, we present a selection of films that shaped and coloured the film landscape of 2025 from January 15 to 25.
No Other Land follows Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank, who has been fighting against the mass displacement of his community by the Israeli authorities since his childhood. He documents the destruction of villages in his region, where Israeli soldiers gradually demolish homes and displace residents. At one point, he meets Yuval, an Israeli journalist, and an unlikely friendship develops between them. Although Yuval supports Basel in his efforts, their bond is strained by the enormous inequality: Basel lives under military occupation, while Yuval enjoys freedom without restrictions. No Other Land, created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective consisting of Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor, serves as an act of creative resistance and strives for justice in the ongoing conflict. The documentary premiered earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival, where it won the Panorama Dokumente Audience Award and the Berlinale Documentary Award. Since then, it has been screened at various international festivals and received numerous awards.