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.

Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian filmmakers who joined two Israeli directors to make the film, was released from custody by Israeli authorities Tuesday after prominent members of the documentary community, including Alex Gibney and Maite Alberdi, demanded his release (so did Oscar-nominated actor Mark Ruffalo). Israeli police held Ballal overnight after questioning him and two other Palestinians for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli settlers in the West Bank and “endangering regional security.” Ballal and two of his fellow directors – Palestinian Basel Adra and Israeli Yuval Abraham – suggested the authorities were offering a false narrative and that it was Ballal who came under attack from masked Israeli settlers.

Ballal told the Associated Press that he was detained at an army base overnight and blindfolded, after being assaulted by a group of settlers outside his home. 

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“All my body is pain,” he told the AP. “I heard the voices of the soldiers; they were laughing about me. … I heard ‘Oscar,’ but I didn’t speak Hebrew.”

Winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature on March 2 seemingly has raised tensions surrounding No Other Land. The audience at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood gave the filmmakers a standing ovation at the Oscar ceremony, but the mayor of Miami Beach, FL, attacked the documentary days later, labeling it antisemitic propaganda, and threatened to evict a cinema located on city-owned land that had programmed the film.

On the latest edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, co-hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey discuss what happened when the Miami Beach City Commission took up the mayor’s resolution to punish the cinema (our conversation was recorded before Ballal’s detention and subsequent release).

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On the new episode, we also discuss a shocking documentary that has just premiered in cinemas and will be released Friday on digital platforms: AUM: The Cult at the End of the World.

The film directed by Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto examines a Japanese religious movement that turned into a doomsday cult, with a man who took the name Shoko Asahara at its head. As the film explores, Asahara and his followers orchestrated a deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subway system that was part of a much larger plot to inflict casualties on a massive scale.

That’s on the new edition of Doc Talk, co-hosted by Oscar winner Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Shirley) and Carey, Deadline’s documentary editor. The pod is a production of Deadline and Ridley’s Nō Studios.

Listen to the episode above or on major podcast platforms including Spotify, iHeart and Apple.