The documentary No Other Land made by a collective of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers won three awards, including the top prize for Outstanding Nonfiction Filmmaking at Cinema Eye Honors 2025 Awards.
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.
Eno, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and Union won two awards each, with Eno winning the Honor for Visual Design and for Unforgettable Brian Eno, Soundtrack winning Editing for Rik Chaubet and Sound Design for Ranko Pauković and Alek Goosse, and Union won 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 won awards, including Outstanding Direction for Mati Diop for Dahomey, Cinematography for Christopher LaMarca and Emily Kassie for Sugarcane, Original Score for Uno Helmersson for 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).
The Honor for Nonfiction Short Film went to Incident by Bill Morrison. The film is also shortlisted for the Oscars.
A full list of winners of Cinema Eye Honors 2025 Awards.
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
