Earlier today, March 24, No Other Land co-director Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked and kidnapped in the West Bank. This news was reported in social media posts published by Ballal’s No Other Land collaborators Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham.
No Other Land
Yesterday, Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner officially rescinded his recent proposal to defund and evict the government-housed and funded O Cinema for showing No Other Land. At a Miami Beach City Commission meeting on Wednesday, March 19, Meiner presented an alternate proposal, which would require the independent theater to “showcase films that highlight a fair and balanced viewpoint of the current war between Israel and the groups Hamas and Hezbollah.” “We were so very glad to see the vast majority of the commissioners speak up for the importance of free speech without government interference,” O Cinema co-founder and board member Kareem Tabsch tells Documentary, after the meeting concluded. “And grateful that Mayor Meiner listened to his community and his colleagues and withdrew the resolution.”
By programming the Academy Award-winning documentary No Other Land , the Miami Beach-based O Cinema attracted the ire of Mayor Steven Meiner, who last