The mayor of Miami Beach wants to evict an independent cinema house from city-owned property for playing “No Other Land” about Palestinian displacement, which recently won the Oscar for best documentary feature.
The joint Palestinian-Israeli film focuses on the continuous destruction of a Palestinian community in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank.
The move by the Florida mayor to withdraw the film comes as civil rights advocates across the US are urging for widespread distribution of the film.
Following the film’s Oscar win, the Council on American-Islamic Relations called for increased accessibility of “No Other Land” for moviegoers. …..more