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Cinema and politics collide at Berlin Film Festival in row over Gaza war

Separating cinema and politics is proving difficult at the Berlin Film Festival, where once again Israel's military offensive in Gaza is dividing filmmakers. More than 90 actors and directors have signed an open letter condemning the organisers' reticence to speak out against what they call a "genocide" of Palestinians.

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No Other Land to be self-released on US platforms after ‘unethical’ Mubi deal rejected

Oscar-winning documentary, about displaced Palestinians in West Bank, will not be heading to Mubi due to links with Sequoia Capital, which has ties to Israeli military

The Guardian - US

The Sea: How an Israeli director’s moving film about a Palestinian boy became a target for Netanyahu

IN DEPTH: When Shai Carmelli-Pollak’s film ‘The Sea’ won five trophies at Israel’s Oscars, it sparked a furious backlash from the government, including threats to defund the awards entirely. The director tells Maira Butt that artists in the country are operating in an increasingly intolerable environment

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Palestinian film-makers on their favorite Palestinian movies: ‘I felt like I was watching my own story’

Mo Amer, Cherien Dabis, Basel Adra and others’ picks show Palestine’s rich, yet overlooked tradition of cinema

The Guardian - US

US’s Rubio says efforts to recognise Palestinian state make it harder to end war – as it happened

Secretary of state holds press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu during visit to Jerusalem

The Guardian - UK

Oscar-winning Palestinian director Basel Adra's home raided by Israeli soldiers

Palestinian Oscar-winning director Basel Adra has said Israeli soldiers conducted a raid at his home in the occupied West Bank

The National (Scotland)

Oscar-winning Palestinian director Basel Adra says Israeli soldiers raided his home in West Bank

Basel Adra co-directed the film No Other Land, a joint Palestinian-Israeli production that chronicles the struggle by residents to stop the Israeli military from demolishing the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta.

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Oscar-winning Palestinian director Basel Adra says his home in West Bank raided by Israeli soldiers

Palestinian Oscar-winning director Basel Adra has told The Associated Press that Israeli soldiers have conducted a raid at his home in the West Bank

The Independent UK

Israeli settler kills Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land'

An Israeli settler, who Donald Trump removed from US sanctions list in January, has killed a Palestinian journalist and community leader who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land'.

Euronews

Israeli settler kills Palestinian teacher who helped make Oscar-winning film

Odeh Muhammad Hadalin played a key role in supporting the production of No Other Land, which captured the impact of Israeli military and settler violence on his West Bank community

The Independent UK

Israeli settler accused of killing Palestinian activist out on house arrest

Footage appears to show settler shooting West Bank activist tied to Oscar-winning film.

Al Jazeera

‘Let down by a world that claims to be humane but does nothing’: Palestinians speak out as Israeli bulldozers raze West Bank villages

IN DEPTH: Masafer Yatta, a collection of villages in the West Bank, has long been a target of forced evictions and settler attacks. After the month of May saw a village almost entirely wiped out and the announcement of 22 new Israeli settlements, Palestinians are losing hope, Alex Croft reports

The Independent UK

Masked Israeli troops block media visit to West Bank site of Oscar-winning film

Group of international reporters stopped on way to Masafer Yatta, which features in documentary No Other Land

The Guardian - UK

Israeli soldiers bar visits to West Bank villages on tour organized by 'No Other Land' Oscar winners

The directors of 'No Other Land' said they had invited journalists to interview residents about increasing settler violence in the area. Israeli soldiers prevented them from doing so. "It's clear they don't want the world to see what is happening here.”

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IDF bars media from visiting West Bank villages on tour organised by Oscar winners

ISRAELI soldiers have barred journalists from entering villages in the West Bank on a planned tour organised by the directors of the Oscar-winning…

The Independent UK

Israeli soldiers bar media from visiting West Bank villages on tour organized by Oscar winners

Israeli soldiers have barred journalists from entering villages in the West Bank on a planned tour organized by the directors of Oscar-winning movie “No Other Land."

Euronews

Israeli bulldozers demolish most of a West Bank Bedouin hamlet displacing dozens of Palestinians

Israel informed Palestinian officials on 1 May that it planned to carry out the demolition of 106 buildings in the West Bank’s Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, citing “military purposes”.

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From Hamdan Ballal to La La Land: A short history of Oscars apologies

The Academy has apologised to 'No Other Land' co-director Hamdan Ballal after criticism for failing to address his violent attack, adding to a list of public apologies by the institution.

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Academy apologizes for failing to mention No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal in statement

Mark Ruffalo and Olivia Colman were among the 690 Academy members who complained

The Guardian - AU

No Other Land co-director condemns Academy’s letter to members after Hamdan Ballal attack

Yuval Abraham criticised the Academy’s statement defending its silence after Israeli settlers attacked his co-director Hamdan Ballal

The Independent UK

Academy hit by backlash for statement failing to mention No Other Land director detained by Israeli army

The Academy said they condemned ‘harming or suppressing artists for their work or their viewpoints’ without mentioning the film or director by name

Evening Standard

No Other Land co-director calls out the Academy for 'refusing' to publicly support Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal after attack

On Monday, reports surfaced that Ballal was assaulted by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and later detained by the Israeli military, though he has since been released

The National (Scotland)

Palestinian co-director says Israel attack was 'revenge for Oscar'

Hamdan Ballal, an Oscar-winning Palestinian co-director who was detained by the Israeli military, has spoken out for the first time since he was…

The Independent UK

No Other Land co-director accuses Academy of ‘refusing’ to publicly support Hamdan Ballal during attack

Yuval Abraham claimed the Academy ‘declined to publicly support’ his ‘No Other Land’ co-director while he was ‘beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and settlers’

The National (Scotland)

Oscar-winning Palestinian director 'in hospital' after 'beating by Israeli soldiers'

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, is in hospital after being "beaten" by…

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