From Oscars to Israeli detention: the attack on no other terrestrial director Hamdan Ball – Podcast | No other land
At the beginning of this month, No other ground won the Oscar for the best documentary functionality. The film tells the community of Masafer Yatta’s West Bank while resisting to be hunted from his land by the violence of the settlers and the demolitions of the Israeli army. The two protagonists of the film, the Palestinian director Basel Adra and the Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham, held speeches when they accepted their prize.
Yuval Abraham: “We live in a regime in which they are free pursuant to civil law and Basel is under military laws that destroy his life … There is a different way, a political solution without ethnic supremacy, with national rights for both our peoples”.
Under the global spotlight next to the couple there were the other co-director of the film, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal.
Adrian HortonAn artistic writer for Guardian Us, he explains to Michael Safi The challenges that the film had to overcome during its production and the fact that despite the enormous critical success, No other land He faced difficulties in view of the Oscars.
And on Monday, just a few weeks after the award ceremony, the co-regista Hamdan Ball was attacked by the colonists and held by the Israeli military. Describes the guardian correspondent Lorenzo Tondo What he believes happened that night and as since the Oscar wins the Masafer Yatta community has experienced even more violence than before.
Tondo explains that many analysts believe that the violence of the colonists is part of a wider attempt by the Israeli state to annex the West Bank during the current presidency of Trump. Horton adds it at the same time, the current The American administration has created a chilling effect on the distribution of some political documentaries.
