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‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Freed, Says Yuval Abraham
The filmmaker had reportedly been attacked by settlers and detained by Israeli police, sparking international outcry.
Shot between 2019 and 2023, No Other Land captures the struggle of people living in the West Bank Palestinian villages of Masafer Yatta in the face of attempts by Israeli authorities and settlers to erase their homes and history from the map. According to reports on website of Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the attack happened around 6 p.m. local time in Ballal’s West Bank village of Susya, when a settler approached Palestinian homes and was asked to leave by residents. More than 600 people including several Oscar winners signed an open letter to the city decrying the theater’s potential shutdown as “an attack on freedom of expression, the right of artists to tell their stories, and a violation of the First Amendment.”
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