Nothing could be plainer to see than Israel’s colonial occupation of Palestine. Yet, every time a film shows us this plain fact, it becomes ‘controversial’. So it was that when the documentary film No Other Land (2024, directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor) won several international awards including at the Berlin Film Festival and the Academy Awards (known popularly as the Oscars), it was seen as being ‘controversial’.