Miami Beach pulls a call to the end of the lease of the theater showing the Israeli-Palestinian documentary film
Mayor Miami Beach, Fla. No other Land, Oscar documentary about the Conflict of Palestinians and Israelites.
This move came after the advocates of more rights in recent days criticized the threat of Mayor Steven Meiner and said they would break the freedom of speech.
Meiner said earlier that he had sought to move out and stop the future payments of grants in a non -profit cinema in South Beach.
City commissioners were supposed to vote on Wednesday about a resolution that formally cite these intentions, which Meiner introduced and published last week. Most of these city commissioners said they opposed the resolution, as well as a dozen people who gathered there.
Meiner said that instead he would introduce another resolution aimed at stimulating cinema to show films that highlight the “honest and balanced position of the current war”, which will be delayed at a later meeting.
There is no other country Open earlier this month in O Cinema, located in the historic city councilor Miami Beach. Meiner reached out a few days before the premiere to discourage the Cinema Executive Director Vivian Marthell to show the movie.
Marthell said she initially agreed that she was not portraying her, but later changed her mind after thinking about wider implications on speech freedom and cinema mission in sharing movies that not only entertain but also challenge, educate and inspire meaningful dialogue.
She threatened legal proceedings against the city if he moved forward with a eviction.
There is no other countrywhich was shot between 2019 and 2023, published last year, was directed by a group of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers: Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor.
The film documents the destruction of Palestinian villages on the western coast of the Israeli army. The production on it wrapped it for days before Hamas started its deadly on October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel resulting in the current war in Gaza.
The film won the award of the Academy for Best Documentation role earlier this month, as well as the prior awards.
