The Palestinian director of No Other Land, Hamdan Ballal, was released
“He is free and will find his family,” announces Yuval Abraham.
Update from March 25, 2025 at 5.30pm: This Tuesday, in the middle of the day, the Israeli director Yuval Abraham announced that his colleague Hamdan Ballal had been released after being “detained overnight in a military base. He is free and will find his family“The day before, he had been arrested by the Israeli army in the West Bank.
After Being Handcuffed All Night and Beaten in Military Base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home family.
– Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) March 25, 2025
Article of March 25, 2025 at 9:15 am: The Palestinian Hamdan Ballaldocumentary co -director No Other Landsacred to Oscars A few weeks ago was arrested on Monday, March 24, by the Israeli army in the West Bank. Two other film co -readers, designed as a “resistance“Against the occupation of the Palestinian territories, testified on X.
“”A group of settlers has lynched Hamdan Ball, co-director of our film No Other Land. They hit him and he was injured in the head and in his stomach, he bleeds. Soldiers entered the ambulance he had called. We haven’t news of him since“wrote the Israeli Yuval Abraham.
“No Other Land” Oscar Winner Yuval Abraham Says His Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Has Been Beaten and Attacked.
“A Group of Settlers Just Lynéched Hamdan Ballal, Co-Director of our film ‘No other Land,’ Abraham posted on X.“ They Beat Him and He has Injuries in His Head and Stomach,… pic.twitter.com/taty32lcww
– Variety (@variety) March 24, 2025
According to Associated Press (via Variety), militants of the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, an NGO opposed to the Israeli occupation, attended the attack. According to them, “A group of 10 to 20 masked settlers attacked it as well as other Jewish activists, with stones and sticks. They broke the windows of their car and punctured their tires“. Abraham also shared a video showing these same settlers, according to him, to American activists.
The documentary No Other Land tells the story of a Palestinian West Bank family threatened with displacement after the destruction of their house by the Israeli government. It was filmed between 2019 and 2023 by an Israeli-Palestinian collective (two Palestinians, Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal, and two Israelis, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor) trained by journalists and activists who met on the ground and became friends.
Since his presentation at the Berlin Festival in 2024, where he received two awards, the film has been the subject of a controversy in Israel (where Yuval’s speech was described as anti -Semitic) relaunched by his victory at the Oscar for the best documentary in early March. The four directors had taken advantage of the ceremony to denounce the current destruction in Gaza and request a solution to two states to end the conflict and ensure peace.
“No Other Land” Director Basel Adra: “We call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of palestinian people.” | #Oscars pic.twitter.com/nzoqlkibsj
– Variety (@variety) March 3, 2025
“” “We ask the world to take serious measures to put an end to this injustice and the genocide of the Palestinian people“Said Basel Adra on stage in particular.
“We have returned from the Oscars and, since then, we have been attacked every day“Reacted Adra to the Associated Press after the arrest of Hamdan Ballal.”It may be their revenge against us, for having made this film. It’s like a punishment.“”
No Other Land Released in the cinema in France on November 13, 2024. It will be available in VOD from April 13 and DVD on April 15.
