An Oscar for ‘No Other Land’ Didn’t Protect Hamdan Ballal

‘No Other Land’ Director Calls Israeli Settler Attack ‘Worst Moment of My Life’

Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the celebrated documentary No Other Land, has published a new essay about being beaten and degraded by Israeli settlers, then blindfolded and detained at an army base, just weeks after winning an Academy Award. Ballal offered a detailed account of the harrowing experience, which he called “the worst moment of my life,” in a New York Times op-ed. “I could hear my wife and kids screaming and crying, calling for me a…

An Oscar for ‘No Other Land’ Didn’t Protect Hamdan Ballal

Hamdan Ballal won an Oscar for co-directing “No Other Land,” then went home to the West Bank and was attacked and arrested.