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Murtada Elfadl “The Encampments” could hardly be opening on a more timely date. The documentary, which chronicles the encampments at Columbia from the students’ perspective, will hit New York theaters three days after its premiere at CPH:DOX, then expand to Los Angeles a week later. In the lead-up to the film’s international screening, two of its protagonists, both students at Columbia University, landed on the front pages of many newspapers: Mahmoud Khalil, arrested by ICE for protesting against the war in Gaza, and Grant Miner, who was expelled by Columbia for the same reason.

his father flew to New York to speak to the film’s lead actress when she went political on X.Jonah Platt, brother of actor Ben Platt, issued a scathing response to one negative commenter who wrote on his Instagram and tried to flip the script on his father. The comment read, “Your dad flew to NYC to reprimand a young actress?” in reference to Variety’s bombshell report this week of the behind-the-scenes drama involving Disney and Zegler, who continuously divided potential moviegoers with her pro-Palestine and anti-Trump comments.

Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land.Ballal was released by Israeli authorities on Tuesday (March 25) after Abraham wrote on X the day before that his co-director had gone missing after being attacked.“A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our film No Other Land,” Abraham wrote. “They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding.

Snow White star Rachel Zegler worked with a “social media guru” paid for by Disney after Instagram posts about President Donald Trump, according to reports.An article by Variety looked into reports of struggles behind the scenes on the production, many of which centred around lead Zegler. The Oscar nominee is outspoken on social media regarding her political point of view, drawing criticism from those who disagree.

William Earl “I remember the first time I came here,” a producer with a film at this year’s Sundance told me in January while devouring a sandwich at the Annex Burger bar, situated on Main Street in Park City. “Seeing the mountains as you drive in, getting to know your neighbors and bartenders, watching people in their winter gear. It’s just such a unique vibe.

Addie Morfoot Contributor On Tuesday at Copenhagen doc festival CPH:DOX, European broadcasters, funders and producers, as well as key players from the U.S. market, gathered for a private lunch at the Odd Fellow Palace to discuss the growing threats to journalistic political feature documentaries.

Hamdan Ballal‘s co-director Yuval Abraham is calling out the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which oversees the Academy Awards.

Naman Ramachandran Yuval Abraham, one of the filmmakers behind the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” has criticized the Academy for not commenting on the attack of his Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal. Ballal was released by Israeli authorities on Tuesday after Abraham wrote on X the day prior that he had gone missing after being attacked. “A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our film ‘No Other Land,’” Abraham said.

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”.

“Snow White” star Gal Gadot because of her outspoken support for Israel, according to a bombshell new report. The 39-year-old Israeli actress, who served in the Israel Defense Forces, received an influx of death threats when her “Snow White” co-star Rachel Zegler, 23, shared a pro-Palestinian message on social media, per Variety.In an August 2024 thread on X thanking fans for their support of the unveiled first trailer for the live-action remake of Disney’s 1937 animated classic, she added, “and always remember, free palestine.” Zegler’s remarks “made the rounds” at Disney, as Variety put it, reportedly leaving many at the House of Mouse shocked that Zegler would infuse a political statement into her promotion of the $270 million film.Concern reached such a fever pitch that an executive at Disney allegedly contacted Zegler’s team to convey their distress, while “Snow White” producer Marc Platt reportedly went to New York to speak with the “West Side Story” actress in person.Death threats against Gadot “spiked” after Zegler’s “free palestine” post, according to Variety, leaving Disney no choice but to pick up the bill for additional security to protect the “Wonder Woman” star.“She didn’t understand the repercussions of her actions as far as what that meant for the film, for Gal, for anyone,” one insider told the outlet of Zegler.The Post reached out to Gadot’s rep for comment.The young actress again found herself in hot water over a social media post following Donald Trump’s election victory in November.

It’s been a day of dramatic developments for No Other Land, the Oscar-winning documentary about life for Palestinian residents in the rural West Bank area of Yasafer Matta.

have exploded in recent weeks. However, a new report claims outspoken star Rachel Zegler’s social media posts have roiled the House of Mouse internally for months.After Zegler fired off a series of missives that disparaged President Donald Trump, the studio went so far as to hire a “social media guru” to closely scrutinize her online activity, according to Variety.In November 2024 — three months after the 23-year-old actress was criticized for commenting “and always remember, free palestine [sic]” on a trailer for her PG-rated family movie — she piled on, posting “F–k Donald Trump” and “May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.”Disney did not want to alienate the 49.8% of Americans who voted for Trump that month from seeing its $270 million movie, so it reportedly enlisted an overseer for Zegler.“After a back and forth, she began working with a social media guru paid for by Disney to vet any posts before the film’s March 21 bow,” the report said.The worried studio also implored the “West Side Story” star to take down her Palestine post.

a bombshell report on Tuesday with alleged inside information on the behind-the-scenes beef between “Snow White” stars Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot.Sources claimed that the actresses didn’t have “bad blood” and “got along well” when they filmed the controversial Disney flick — but “things got awkward” for the pair before the movie’s March 21 release.While Zegler, 23, and Gadot, 39, seemingly clashed because of their opposing views on the war in Gaza, they reportedly fell out over a social media comment made by Zegler earlier this month.According to Variety, Zegler called Gadot “a professional pageant queen” in an Instagram reply after they presented an award together at the Oscars on March 2.Sources said that the remark is “considered a dismissive way to describe a fellow actress.”In the lead-up to the film’s release, Disney decided to have Zegler and Gadot mostly do press separately. That decision, according to Variety’s sources, “fueled the perception of a feud” between the two.Zegler and Gadot were reportedly “mostly kept apart” at the scaled-back “Snow White” premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on March 15.For the screening that immediately followed the premiere, Zegler allegedly sat two rows ahead of Gadot and her family, per Variety.The outlet said that by the time of the premiere, “Disney had given up hope that the film could overcome the backlash” that was overshadowing the film.Additionally, there was tension between the actresses after Zegler wrote “Free Palestine” on X around the time the first trailer for “Snow White” was released online in August 2024.

New insights regarding the controversies surrounding the Snow White film starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot have been released.

Deadline, Yuval Abraham, who directed the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land alongside Ballal, posted on X/Twitter earlier today (March 25) that, “After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.”This comes after reports emerged yesterday that Ballal had been attacked by Israeli settlers at his house, before being detained by military forces.After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family.— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) March 25, 2025 The Guardian cited five Jewish American activists who witnessed the incident, who said that Ballal was “surrounded and attacked by a group of about 15 armed settlers in Susya in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron”.According to the witnesses, the settlers started throwing stones towards Ballal and other Palestinians, destroying a nearby water tank and Ballal’s car. A group of soldiers and settlers dressed in military uniform then arrived at the scene, who chased Ballal before he was eventually arrested.Abraham had shared the news on X yesterday.

Hamdan Ballal is now free again.

Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been freed after being detained and beaten, according to the documentary’s Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham.

Naman Ramachandran UPDATE: Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning Israel-Palestine documentary “No Other Land,” has been freed, according to the latest post from co-director Yuval Abraham. “After being handcuffed all night and beaten in a military base, Hamdan Ballal is now free and is about to go home to his family,” Abraham posted on X on Tuesday.

Alissa Simon Film Critic Propounding one specific pro-Israel, American Jewish point-of-view, the independently financed social-issue documentary “October 8” charts and laments the alarming increase in antisemitism — particularly on university campuses and in social media — following the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion into Israel that resulted in over 1,200 deaths and the taking of 251 hostages.

Hamdan Ballal has reportedly been beaten and detained.

No Other Land,” is reportedly missing after being attacked, according to a series of posts on X from co-director Yuval Abraham. “A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co-director of our film ‘No Other Land,'” Abraham posted on X Monday. “They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding.