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” filmmaker Yuval Abraham has criticized AMPAS for not commenting on the situation surrounding his Oscar-winning fellow co-director Hamdan Ballal. Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning Israel-Palestine documentary "No Other Land,

Ballal left a West Bank police station Tuesday with “bruises on his face and blood on his clothes,” according to Associated Press journalists on the scene.