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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Sian Cain

No Other Land director calls Florida mayor’s campaign against his film ‘very dangerous’

(L-R) Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham, the Israeli and Palestinian directors of No Other Land after winning the Oscar for best documentary feature on 2 March.
(L-R) Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham, the Israeli and Palestinian directors of No Other Land after winning the Oscar for best documentary feature on 2 March. Photograph: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

The Israeli director of No Other Land has criticised a Florida mayor’s efforts to evict a local cinema after it screened his Oscar-winning documentary about Palestinian displacement in the West Bank, saying: “Banning a film only makes people more determined to see it.”

Steven Meiner, the mayor of Miami Beach, has issued a draft resolution calling for the termination of the city’s lease agreement with O Cinema, and withdrawing $40,000 in promised grant funding for the nonprofit that runs the independent cinema.

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