600 members of the Hollywood Film Academy Rebel Against The Presidentcy for their warm response after the attack on the director of “No other land” | Culture

The Hollywood Film Academy is worried and on the verge of an internal crisis. The Massimo cinematographic organ of Los Angeles (and, probably, one of the most influential and media media of global cinema) saw with concern The brutal detention, with the beat included, that at the beginning of this week the Palestinian director, journalist and activist Hamdan Ballal suffered from the hands of Jewish settlers, Documentary co -director No other landThat on March 2nd He grew up with the Oscar with a long long documentary. After the denunciation of the director of the film for the lack of support from Hollywood, the president of the Academy, Janet Yang, sent a letter, sentenced to what happened, but many of its members seemed late, warm and not very specific. Therefore, the Council of Governors of the Academy, its high management body, has decided to collect urgently and in an extraordinary way to decide how to deal with that attack and express its support for the documentary team.

The meeting took place at eleven in the morning, now of the Pacific (seven in the afternoon, now Peninsular Spanish), while the publication specialized in cinema announced exclusively Expiration. About 600 members of all branches of the Academy have signed two writings. One, for which they require a stronger response to the treatment that Ballal received from the Israeli authorities. Another, the alternative they would have sent in response to the attack, much more difficult than that of the presidency. Among the signatories are the Spanish actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, the British Olivia Colman and Emma Thompson and the American interpreters Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Mark Ruffal Erol Morris, Jim Jarmusch, Adam McKay and Jonathan Glazer, as well as screenwriters, musicians, costumes or special sounds, and documentaries.

These letters are clear criticism to the president of the Academy, Janet Yang, and its executive director, Bill Kramer, from Wednesday’s declaration, which qualifies as late and with little force After the arrest and brutal beating suffered by Ballal. In fact, in the declaration that Yang and Kramer sent internally and also to the Associated Press agency (he did not reach journalists who are registered in their news, as usual), did not even mention the name of the documentary or dance. He read that “the Academy condemns to be damaged or repress the artists for their work or opinions”. “We live in a time of profound changes, marked by conflicts and uncertainty, all over the world, in the United States and within our sector. It is understandable that we are often asked to speak in the name of the Academy to respond to social, political and economic events. In these cases, it is important to note that the Academy represents about 11,000 members all over the world with many unique points of view equidistory that many have not liked themselves.

The letter of the Academy arrived several days after the attack on Ball and even after the complaints by the documentary management team, composed of Palestinians and Israelis. One of those directors is the Israeli Yuval Abraham, who precisely denounced the disappearance of his Palestinian colleague on social networks, as well as the subsequent beating he suffered, telling how “had wounds in the head and stomach, bleeding” and that “the soldiers invaded the ambulance that he called and brought him”.

On Wednesday, Yuval Abraham himself returned to writing in X, this time to criticize the inaction of the omnipotent academy, which also is current these weeks. “Unfortunately, the Academy of the United States, who granted us an Oscar three weeks ago, refused to publicly support Hamdan Ballal while he is beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and colonists,” said the co -Director of No other land. “The European Academy has expressed its support, like other countless groups of prizes and festivals. Different members of the United States Academy – especially in the documentary branch – pressed to make a declaration, but in the end it was rejected. They told us that like other Palestinians they were beaten in the attack of the settlers, it could be taken into consideration that the film could not be considered, so they did not feel the need.

When The answer has come, Wednesday evening was clearly insufficient. In fact, some academics of this documentary branch expressed anonymous form that the answer was “embarrassing and shameful”. “We found it in all horrible,” said a member of the American press. All this has meant that the academy has gathered urgently and that the most angry members sent a letter, which also collects Expiration exclusively. “On March 26, 2025, the direction of the Academy of Artistic and Cinematographic Sciences sent via E -mail a declaration with the” World Cinematic Community “. No other landAlthough he did not mention Ball or the film with his name, nor did he describe the events he replied “, regrets those 600 members in the declaration.” Bill Kramer and Janet Yang’s statement was not very short in terms of feelings that this moment requires. Therefore, we issue our declaration, which speaks on behalf of the members of the Academy of Artistic and Cinematographic Sciences under the signatory. “

In addition, these 600 signatories have also written their declaration, who believe that it must be sent in response to the hard aggression suffered by Ball, and in which we read, with much more hardness than that of Yang and Kramer: “We continue the abrupt aggression and the illegal arrest of the artists, as artists, as artists, as artists, as artists, as artiers. reprisals.

No other landWhich in the United States did not reach a distributor and therefore could not be seen in Salas, is a documentary film in which employment in the West Bank is interpreted. It was performed for five years and until October 2023, and in it the clear violence of the occupation is seen. After winning the prize for the best documentary at the Berlin Film Festival in 2024, on March 2 he won the Oscar. In his speech to collect the prize, Basel Adra, one of his directors, said: “I hope my daughter should not live the same life that I am experiencing, always under surveillance, with invasions, displaces and an occupation. This film reflects so raw in which we have lived decades. We ask actions to end this injury and the ethnic cleaning of Palestian people.”

For his part, Abraham has also proclaimed the Hollywood Dolly Theater stage: “Palestinians and Israelis have made our strongest voices. Gaza’s atrocious destruction And its people must end, the Israeli hostages in Gaza must be released. When I see Basel, I see my brother, but we are not the same. We live in a regime in which I am free under civil law, while Basel must live under military law that destroys his life. “And he concluded in his speech:” We need a political solution without ethnic supremacy. The foreign policy of this country helps to block this path, don’t you see that we are intertwined? My people can only be sure that the Palestinians are truly free. There is no other way to do it, there is no other way of living. “