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 875 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…

Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here taking you through another super busy week of news. Sign up here. ‘No Other Land’ American Film Academy criticism: On Monday, Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham wrote in an X post that his Palestinian No…

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…

It's been a day of dramatic developments for No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary about life for Palestinian residents in the rural West Bank area of Yasafer Matta. Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian filmmakers who joined two Israeli directors to make the film, was released from…

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been freed after being detained and beaten, according to the documentary's Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham. Hamdan Ballal is free and is about to go home to his family— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם…

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 mayor of Miami Beach has scuttled his proposal to evict an indie cinema for showing the Oscar-winning Israeli-Palestinian documentary No Other Land. Mayor Steven Meiner withdrew his plan during a lively meeting of the Miami Beach City Commission today. He had issued a draft resolution last w…

Miami Beach city commission meetings typically don't generate national and international news, but that could happen Wednesday. The commission is due to take up a resolution spearheaded by Mayor Steven Meiner that would cancel the city's lease with a movie theater showing the Oscar-winning docu…

The blowback continues over the Miami Beach mayor’s threat to close a movie theater over its screening of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. More than 600 people including several Oscar winners have signed an open letter to the city decrying the potential shutdown of indie theater O Cinema…