‘No Other Land’ Wins Best Documentary

Other winners include Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and Queendom.

Berlinale Panorama — Best documentary winner ‘No Other Land.’ Berlinale

No Other Land won the best feature award at the 2024 International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards on Thursday night, Dec 5.

No Other Land, which paints a portrait of life under Israeli occupation in the West Bank, also won the best director for award for Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham, and the IDA Pare Lorentz Award.

The film previously won awards at the Berlin International Film Fest, where it premiered, the Gotham Awards, the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and the National Board of Review Awards.

Other winners include Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, which won three awards including best editing and writing, as well as Queendom, We’re Here and Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, among others.

Sugarcane, a film about the abusive legacy of Catholic-run Native American missionary schools, earned five nods, including for best feature.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat scored four nods and three titles–Queendom, Black Box Diaries and My Sweet Land — landed three nominations apiece.

This year’s IDA nominees were selected from 700 entries made in 77 countries, up from last year, and, in the feature and shortlist categories, chosen from shortlists announced on Oct. 24.

Entries were reviewed by jurors that included 300 documentary professionals from made in countries.

The IDA awards also honored Dawn Porter with the Career Achievement Award, Black Box Diaries‘ Shiori Ito with the Emerging Filmmaker Award and the four directors of No Other Land were honored with the Courage Under Fire Award.

The 40th IDA Documentary Awards were hosted by Adam Conover and took place at Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theater.

The ceremony also streamed live on documentary.org and IDA’s YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

See below for the full 2025 winners list.

DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD
Her Name Was Zehava (USA, Israel)

IDA PARE LORENTZ AWARD
No Other Land (Palestine, Norway, USA)

BEST LIMITED SERIES
A Town Called Victoria (USA)

BEST TV FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
Two American Families: 1991-2024 (USA)

ABC NEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Belgium, France, Netherlands)

BEST CURATED SERIES
Independent Lens (USA)

BEST AUDIO DOCUMENTARY WINNER
What’s Up, Michael Freeman? (USA)

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE
Victor Hernandez Stumpfhauser, Frida (USA)