No Other Land has been named Best Feature by the International Documentary Association at the 40th Annual IDA Documentary Awards. The film also won Best Director for its quartet of filmmakers; Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, and Yuval Abraham. They also received the IDA’s Courage Under Fire Award, a previously announced honour recognising the difficult and dangerous conditions in which the film was made.
Winners in bold below.
Best Feature Documentary
Agent of Happiness
Black Box Diaries
Dahomey
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
No Other Land
Queendom
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Seeking Mavis Beacon
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Best Short Documentary
Amma ki Katha
Enchunkunoto (The Return)
Instruments of a Beating Heart
The Medallion
A Move
A Movement Against the Transparency of the Stars of the Seas
Modern Goose
Nine Easy Dances
The Poem We Sang
Until He’s Back
Best Director
Shiori Ito, Black Box Diaries
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor & Yuval Abraham, No Other Land
Agniia Galdanova, Queendom
Johan Grimonprez, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, Sugarcane
Best Cinematography
Arun Bhattarai, Agent of Happiness
Alix Blair, Helen and the Bear
Sareen Hairabedian, My Sweet Land
Ruslan Fedotov, Queendom
Christopher LaMarca and Emily Kassie, Sugarcane
Best Editing
Ema Ryan Yamazaki, Black Box Diaries
Katrina Taylor, Helen and the Bear
Raphaelle Martin-Holger and Sareen Hairabedian, My Sweet Land
Rik Chaubet, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Nathan Punwar and Maya Daisy Hawke, Sugarcane
Best Original Music Score
Víctor Hernández Stumpfhauser, Frida
Maxwell Sterling, Life and Other Problems
Tigran Hamasyan, My Sweet Land
Uno Helmersson, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Mali Obomsawin, Sugarcane
Best Writing
Raoul Peck, Ernest Cole, Ernest Cole: Lost & Found
Hasan Oswald, Mediha
Lea Glob and Andreas Bøggild Monies, Piece by Piece
Morgan Neville, Jason Zeldes, Aaron Wickenden, & Oscar Vasquez, Piece by Piece
Jazmin Jones, Seeking Mavis Beacon
Johan Grimonprez, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Best TV Feature Documentary
The Apartheid Killer
Madu
Night Is Not Eternal
Stolen Gold
Two American Families: 1991-2024
Best Curated Series
30 for 30
99 – We all share 99% of the same DNA
Independent Lens
The New York Times Op-Docs
POV
Best Episodic Series
Couples Therapy
The Negotiators
Queens
A Real Bug’s Life
We’re Here
Best Limited Series
Choir
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning
STAX: Soulsville U.S.A.
A Town Called Victoria
Best Music Documentary
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
Beatles 64
Maestra
Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
Songs from the Hole
Best Audio Documentary
Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust
Pack One Bag
Shadowball: Rise of the Black Athlete
The Sunday Story: A Song for Grief in China
“What’s Up, Michael Freeman?”
David L. Wolper Student Documentary
The Anarchist and the Fridge
Her Name Was Zehava
Jerhy
Milk
The Waiter, the Scientist and Jenny
SPECIAL AWARDS
Career Achievement Award
Dawn Porter
Emerging Filmmaker Award
Shiori Ito, Black Box Diaries
Courage Under Fire Award
Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor & Yuval Abraham – No Other Land
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