Oscar-winning director Yuval Abraham has criticized the Academy of Motion Pictures for “refusing” to put out a public statement in support of his No Other Land co-director, Hamdan Ballal, who was recently attacked by Israeli settlers and later detained by the Israeli military.
Ballal, a Palestinian filmmaker, and his co-directors Abraham, Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli director Rachel Szor, won the 2025 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for their film No Other Land, which depicts the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance that develops between Adra and Abraham.
