America bans Syrian behind Oscar-nominated film

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

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America has banned a 21-year-old Syrian behind an Oscar nominated documentary from entering the country.

Khaled Khatib did most of the filming for a British movie called The White Helmets.

It's a 40 minute Netflix documentary about the Syrian Civil Defence, volunteers who risk their lives to rescue civilians.

It's widely thought to be one of Britain's best chances for an Oscar in the short documentary category.

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But before he got on his plane US officials reported finding derogatory information about Khatib.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39089364/america-bans-syrian-behind-oscar-nominated-film

[dhill926]

1. another embarrassment....

we're rapidly becoming an international pariah....

[Matthew28]

2. America is going to be as hated as north Korea by 2020 at this rate

[redwitch]

3. It's true.

Music, film, art, tech, science, tourism, golf! all hurting over the orange clowns decrees. He really has to go.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. The 'White Hat' propagandist symbolism

is truly infantile in its transparency, isn't it? When I've seen clips of them on YouTube, I half expected Hopalong Cassidy to be riding in, to see how his posse were making out.

[redwitch]

5. Hopalong Cassidy would be rightly appalled too! nt