Hamdan Ballal, one of the film’s four directors , which won the best documentary feature at the 2025 Academy Awards, was beaten by a mob of Israeli settlers in March and detained by the military. One of the film’s other co-directors, Yuval Abraham, posted video on X with the comment:An Israeli settler just shot Odeh Hadalin in the lungs, a remarkable activist who helped us film No Other Land in Masafer Yatta. Residents identified Yinon Levi, sanctioned by the EU and US, as the shooter. … Yinon Levi, a settler sanctioned by 9 countries (now 8, because of Trump)Adra went on,I can hardly believe it. Levi and other sanctioned settlers told the AP that the measures were, “at most, an annoyance.”In the US there is a division of labor.