The Institute Alexis Tsipras, In the context of the 2nd International Conference which It will take place this year on June 10 at the Athens Concert Hall, He will award the Prespa Peace Award for 2025 to the four award -winning documentary “No Other Land”.
A documentary – act of resistance and hope of four brave young artists, two Palestinians and two Israelis, To the persons whose institute honors all those who fight for freedom and peace, all those, the hundreds of thousands, who were sacrificed and all those who spend every minute of losing their lives on fields of conflict.
The award of Basel Adra, a Palestinian filmmaker living on the West Bank in the Masafer Yatta area of Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian photographer and activist, Yuval Abraham, Israeli journalist and Israeli director Rachel Szor, With the Irene Prespa Award 2025, it comes at a time when world public opinion watches with anger, sadness and despair the continuing extermination of civilians in Gaza.
And that is exactly the moment when people need the testimony of the truth of Basel, Yuval, Hamdan and Rachel.
Testimony of truth about what it means to live under the constant threat of uprooting and loss. Testimony of truth, showing us the faces of those who enter the iron bed of Procrustes of geopolitical games and interests. Testimony of truth about their history, their feelings, their memories, the hovering in their empty life.
The four creators offered us With their cooperation and ‘No Other Land’ A great gift and a great opportunity. The ability to perceive and believe that the two peoples can meet, talk and create beyond slaughter and terror, differences and exclusions, with vigor and boldness.
“My people can be really safe when the people of Basel Adra are truly free and safe. There is no other way, “said Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham in his moving speech during their award with the Best Documentary Oscar for 2025.
A phrase that encompasses the unique but uncomfortable for many truth. A truth that the brave creators imprinted, making us societies In the story of a Palestinian family expelled from her home on the West Bank from the Israeli government. An area that has been described as a military zone and is constantly experiencing evictions and violent displacements.
And there, between In destruction, violence, death and tragic impasse, Adra and Abraham open their mind and heart And they experience the true dimension of the perpetual conflict. They see in the debris and the joke, light and hope. Realize what the only answer is. And we are also aware of us that, even in one of the most difficult geopolitical environments on the planet, they can join the truth in order to meet peace.
The four brave creators who suffered threats, physical violence and were described as “traitors” because although “eternal enemies” found the “invisible” passage that brought them face to face with the truth, are the tangible proof that there is hope and that they can be hopeful.
It is no coincidence that ‘No Other Land’ was accepted with emotion and excitement and the effort of the four creators, This Palestinian and Israeli collective won many important awards.
At the Berlin Film Festival in 2024, “No Other Land” won the Best Documentary Award and the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary. These distinctions were the beginning of an impressive course, which culminated in his award with an Oscar for Best Documentary in 2025.
The Institute Alexis Tsipras For peace, justice and sustainable development with the award of the Peace Prize to be received by Yuval Abraham and Basel Adra, at the 2nd Institute’s 2nd International Conference, he participates in the highlight of the importance of truth, empathy, solidarity and bravery. Because there is no other way for peace.