EXCLUSIVE: Hamdan Ballal and his fellow No Other Land filmmakers are thanking top members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for signing a letter that pushed AMPAS leadership to take a firmer stance condemning an attack on Ballal by Israeli settlers. Related…

The top brass at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued an apology today for not mentioning Oscar-winning No Other Land co-director Hamdan Ballan or the film by name in its initial response to his West Bank attack and detention on Monday. The note from AMPAS CEO Bill Kramer and…

UPDATED, 12:50 PM: More than 900 Academy members have now signed the letter, including actors Carey Mulligan, Glenn Close, Andrew Garfield, America Ferrera, Edward Norton, Jane Fonda, Pedro Pascal, Kristin Scott Thomas, Frances Fisher and Elizabeth Olsen; actor-directors Taika Waititi, Ben Affleck…

Oscar-winning No Other Land filmmaker Yuval Abraham is continuing to exert pressure on the Oscar Academy for the way it has responded to a violent settler attack on Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal and his Israeli military detention earlier this week. Israeli director Abraham, who had…

No Other Land co-director Yuval Abraham has claimed that the “US Academy, which awarded us an Oscar three weeks ago, declined to publicly support Hamdan Ballal while he was beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and settlers”. Israeli filmmaker Abraham, who has been active on X in recent days…

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers close to his West Bank village on Monday and then arrested by soldiers, according to the documentary’s Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham. Related…

The Palestinian and Israeli directors of No Other Land, the documentary set in the occupied West Bank, criticized America's foreign policy in the region as they accepted the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature tonight. The quartet of Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal, who are Palestinian, and Yuval…

EXCLUSIVE: The Israeli and Palestinian directors of No Other Land, the award-winning documentary set in the West Bank, are abandoning a U.S. tour and heading home as violence explodes in the region. Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor cut short what was to have been a month-long visit…