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Imagine a group of a dozen armed men storming your village at nightfall. They assault you and your neighbours, throw stones at your house, beat you. If you try to defend yourself, or document the violence, they attack you. When the military arrives, they detain you. Some of them join in with the violence. This harrowing scene is not a story from Tsarist Russia or Jim Crow America. Last Monday, this was exactly what occurred in the Palestinian village of Susya in the occupied West Bank.

Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning ‘No Other Land’, returned from Los Angeles three weeks ago.

When No Other Land won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary feature, corporate media outlets didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet.

After being denounced by German government officials following its February premiere in Berlin, the film has become one of the year’s most acclaimed works.