Cinema Eye Honors 2025 Winners: ‘No Other Land’ Continues Its Remarkable Awards Season Run

Even as it continues to seek U.S. distribution, “No Other Land” is continuing its remarkable awards season run. The latest win for the documentary, made by a Palestinian/Israeli collective that includes directors and activists Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, and Basel Adra: a trio of awards at this year’s Cinema Eye Honors.

At the 18th annual Cinema Eye Honors, which took place Thursday, January 9 at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem, the film walked away with three awards, including Cinema Eye’s top prize, Outstanding Nonfiction Filmmaking. Directors Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor also received the award for Debut Feature, with Abraham and Adra also Honored as Unforgettables for their appearance on screen in the film.

This year’s nominees for the Cinema Eye Honors, which honors the best in documentary fiction and TV, included a healthy crop of some of our best new non-fiction offerings. Other winners included “Eno,” “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” and “Union,” which took home two honors each, with “Eno” taking the Honor for Visual Design and for Unforgettable Brian Eno, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” winning Editing for Rik Chaubet and Sound Design for Ranko Pauković and Alek Goosse, and “Union” recognized for Production (Brett Story, Stephen Maing, Mars Verrone, Samantha Curley, and Martin DiCicco) and Unforgettable Chris Smalls.

A number of films on the Oscar Best Documentary Feature Shortlist received trophies this evening, including Outstanding Direction for Mati Diop (“Dahomey”), Cinematography for Christopher LaMarca and Emily Kassie (“Sugarcane”), Original Score for Uno Helmersson (“The Remarkable Life of Ibelin”), Audience Choice Prize for “Porcelain War” and Unforgettable Honors for “Black Box Diaries” (Shiori Ito), “Queendom” (Genna Marvin), and “Will & Harper” (Harper Steele).

HBO had a big evening, earning four awards in the Broadcast Film and Series categories: “Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.” for Broadcast Film, “Telemarketers” for Nonfiction Series, “How To with John Wilson” (Season 3) for Anthology Series and “Ren Faire” for Broadcast Cinematography. The Broadcast Editing Honor went to Apple’s “Girls State.”

Check out the full list of winners below.

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 for “Dahomey”

Editing
Rik Chaubet for “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”

Production
Brett Story, Stephen Maing, Mars Verrone, Samantha Curley, and Martin DiCicco for “Union”

Cinematography
Christopher LaMarca and Emily Kassie for “Sugarcane”

Original Music Score
Uno Helmersson for “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin”

Sound Design
Ranko Pauković and Alek Goosse for “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”

Visual Design
Brendan Dawes for “Eno”

Audience Choice Prize
“Porcelain War,” Directed by Brendan Bellomo, and Slava Leontyev

Debut Feature
“No Other Land,” Directed by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor

Unforgettables
Shiori Ito for “Black Box Diaries”
Brian Eno for “Eno”
Lhakpa Sherpa for “Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa”
Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra for “No Other Land”
Patrice Jetter for “Patrice: The Movie”
Genna Marvin for “Queendom”
Chris Smalls for “Union”
Harper Steele for “Will and Harper”

Nonfiction Short
“Incident,” Directed by Bill Morrison

Broadcast Film
“Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.,” Directed by Jeremy O. Harris

Nonfiction Series
“Telemarketers,” Directed by Adam Bhala Lough and Sam Lipman-Stern

Anthology Series
“How To with John Wilson” Season 3, John Wilson, Nathan Fielder, Michael Koman, and Clark Reinking

Broadcast Editing
Amy Foote for “Girls State”

Broadcast Cinematography
Nate Hurtsellers for “Ren Faire”

Spotlight Award
“Black Snow,” Directed by Alina Simone

Heterodox Award
“Songs from the Hole,” Directed by Contessa Gayles