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‘No Other Land’ Co-Director Says U.S. Academy ‘Refused’ to Issue Statement in Support of Hamdan Ballal: They Were ‘Silent When a Filmmaker They Honored Needed Them the Most’
'No Other Land' filmmaker Yuval Abraham has criticized AMPAS for not commenting on the situation around his Oscar-winning co-director Hamdan Ballal.
“No Other Land” filmmaker Yuval Abraham has criticized AMPAS for not commenting on the situation surrounding his Oscar-winning fellow co-director Hamdan Ballal. On Wednesday, Abraham posted on X: “Sadly, the U.S. 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. Made as an Israeli-Palestinian collective, “No Other Land” follows a Palestinian family living in the West Bank as their home gets destroyed by the Israeli government and they face displacement.
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