Florida's mayor threatens to end the rental agreement of the Arthouse cinema, the “no other country” plays message

The Mayor of Miami Beach in Florida has threatened to end the rental agreement of a local arthouse cinema for retaliation for the review of the Oscar winner documentary No other country.

Mayor Steven Mine tries to kick City Land's O-cinema and to stop the financing of the city for the non-profit organization after it had held several demonstrations of the film, which was filmed by a Palestinian Israeli collective, and shows the demolition by Israel of the Palestinian settlements in the Masafer Yatta region of the West Bank region.

After Miami HeraldWhat the story broke, mine sent a newsletter to the residents in which he was described on Tuesday No other country as “a wrong, one -sided propaganda attack on the Jewish people who do not match the values ​​of our city and the residents”.

After Herald The mayor has introduced laws to terminate the rental agreement, and the city commissioners will vote on the measure next Wednesday (March 19).

O CEO/CCO Vivian Marthell with the Cinema first told the mayor that she would not proceed with demonstrations, in a letter dated March 6, wrote that while she wanted to bring Oscar winners to her audience, she had decided not to advance due to the “concerns of the anti-Semitic rhetoric”.

The following day, however, Marthell made a U -turn and said that she would continue a planned demonstration last Friday [March 7]And more next week. In an e -mail to the HeraldMarthell said that she was not advanced in an act of political orientation, but in “a courageous confirmation of our fundamental conviction that every voice deserves to hear, even and maybe especially when she challenges us”. Four demonstrations on March 18 and 19 are sold out on the website of the cinema.

No other country criticizes Israeli politics and remains without a US sales dealer who deals with very sensitive political issues.

The co-directors Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal and Rachel Szor have entered the help of Cinetic Media, who last December used their expertise for the award ceremony for the documentary of the Academy and Michael Tuckman Media to book cinemas in the USA.

So far, it has achieved more than $ 1 million at the North American box office-more than twice the large of the other four Oscar-nominated documentaries together and another $ 300,000 via international distributors that were licensed by Autlook.