The mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, is threatening to pull a local cinema’s lease over its screening of “No Other Land,” an Oscar-winning documentary about Israel’s forced expulsion of Palestinians from villages in the West Bank.

The International Documentary Association and the independent cinema coalition Art House Convergence have released a joint statement condemning Miami Beach mayor Steven Meiner's attempts to terminate the lease of the O Cinema for its decision to screen the Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner has sought to evict an art house cinema from city property for screening Oscar-winning "No Other Land," a film about the Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.