A day after "No Other Land" co-director Hamdan Ballal was released from his brief detainment in the West Bank, his fellow filmmaker Yuval Abraham has called out the Academy for not publicly supporting one of their own.

No Other Land co-director Yuval Abraham has claimed that the “US Academy, which awarded us an Oscar three weeks ago, declined to publicly support Hamdan Ballal while he was beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and settlers”.

Yuval Abraham called out the organization's silence after an Oscar winner was detained: "We were told that because other Palestinians were beaten up in the settler attack, it could be considered unrelated to the film,