“No other country“Is it most acclaimed film from 2024 without US distributionWhether it is due to concern about embracing a story about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict or due to general concern for the documentary market theatrically.
And yet, even without a proper distributor who supports it, film has collected only $ 420,000 on the domestic Cash office. What is more impressive-or perhaps more sad, given the state of documentary film — is that the film is now the highly penetrating function among Five DOC features nominated on Oscars this year.
According to COMSCORE data, “Soundtrack to a coup d’etat” (Kino Lorber) is the second highest with $ 320 530 cumulative from 25 February. “Porcelain War” (Picturehouse Films) has $ 112.2. “Black Box Diaries” (MTV documentary films) had no reported figures via Comscore but had an edition on October 25, and Box Office Mojo lists a worldwide gross of $ 33,228.
“No Other Land” first started playing theaters on January 31 and opened at the New York City Film Forum for about $ 26,000 during its first week, with Film Forum offering the release just a week after the Oscar nominations came out. Over the last weekend, “No Other Land” doubled its screen number to 54 screens and published an average per screen of $ 1,780.
And that rise will not stop after Oscars, as the coming weekend is expanding again to 83 screens.
After winning the Berlinale Documentary Award and the Audience Award in Berlin now over a year ago, “No Other Land” has sat without distribution from American buyers, but a person with knowledge of the film’s release strategy told Indiewire that the filmmakers collectively collaborated with independent distribution consultant Michael Tumman for the Plan Michael Tuck Since then, its platform release has been quite traditional and aimed at the coast and typical indie arts before being expanded to other major cities.
It wouldn’t be the first last movie that Find success as an independent edition. In fact, another movie on Oscars Shortlist, The political doctor “union”, Also went without proper distribution and managed to earn about $ 10,000 at the checkout, according to Comscore data.
But the DOC market theatrical 2024 was in such a difficult place as ever. The top release of last year was “am I racist?” The animated Pharrell doctor “bit by bit” came close with about $ 10 million globally, and the latest publication of “Become Led Zeppelin“Is the only documentary so far this year with a chance to catch it.
“As a genre, the documentary film has historically mixed results at the checkout,” Comscore analyst Paul Dergabedian told IndieWire. “This may partly be due to the practically unlimited range of any truly excellent long-shaped multi-section Document series available on every streaming platform known to man, and thus the theatrically released films often fight to find a wide audience enough to generate significant boxing offices.”
But the success of movies such as “no other land” and “Eno” (also from last year) proves that there may be an audience for documentaries in theaters after all.
