If there was one film in particular that became the target of unjust attacks after this year's highly controversial Berlinale awards ceremony this year – exposing the most aberrant Islamophobic stereotypes (see Minister Claudia Roth's mind-boggling statement) and leading to a stream of death threats against its directors – that film was No Other Land (dir. Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor), presented in the Panorama section and winner of the documentary film jury's grand prize. This string of incidents generated an uproar of such proportions and garnered so much public support for Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham that the film became known to an audience perhaps even larger than anyone might have expected. This film about Israel's illegal and ever-expanding occupation of the West Bank has all the potential, especially in the context of the war crimes being committed in Gaza, to emerge as one of the most important documentaries of the year.

Flavia Dima

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Film critic & journalist. Collaborates with local and international outlets, programs a short film festival - BIEFF, does occasional moderating gigs and is working on a PhD thesis about home movies. At Films in Frame, she writes the monthly editorial - The State of Cinema and is the magazine's main festival reporter.

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