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Florida mayor drops threat to evict cinema over No Other Land screening
The Oscar-winning film, about a Palestinian community resisting displacement and violence from Israeli forces, has become the latest focus of a culture war in the state
He also said he was deferring an alternative proposal that encouraged the theater to “showcase films that highlight a fair and balanced viewpoint of the current war between the state of Israel and the groups Hamas and Hezbollah”. They unfolded their LET PALESTINE LIVE banner on a public street and encountered a dozen police officers who relocated the group to a corner near the Convention Center, a move many saw as an infraction of activists’ first amendment rights. The Miami-based artist and film-maker Cristina Rivera Sangama, one of the organizers of the 2023 and 2024 pro-Palestine protests at Art Basel Miami Beach, has lost all her income due to speaking out publicly against Israel’s alleged war crimes, she told the Guardian.
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