5 Broken Cameras

    5 caméras brisées

    • Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
    • France, Israel
    • 2011
    • 90 min
    • World Premiere
    • IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
    Palestinian farm laborer Emad has five video cameras, and each of them tells a different part of the story of his village's resistance to Israeli oppression. Emad lives in Bil'in, just west of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank. Using the first camera, he recorded how the bulldozers came to rip the olive trees out of the ground in 2005. Here, a wall was built directly through his fellow villagers' land to separate the advancing Jewish settlements from the Palestinians. In the first days of resistance to the Jewish colonists and the ever-present Israeli soldiers, Emad's son Gibreel was born. Scenes shift from the infant growing into a precocious preschooler to the many peaceful acts of protest, and the steady progress of the construction of the dividing wall. Sympathizers from all over the world, including from Israel, provide help as resistance develops, but when the situation intensifies, people are arrested and villagers are killed. Emad keeps on filming despite pleas from his wife, who fears reprisals. It makes for an intensely powerful personal document about one village's struggle against violence and oppression.

    Credits

    • 90 min
    • color / black and white
    • video
    • Spoken languages: Arabic, Hebrew
    • Subtitles in: English
    Director
    Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
    Production
    Emad Burnat for Burnat Films Palestine, Guy Davidi for Guy DVD Films, Serge Gordey for Alegria Productions
    Cinematography
    Emad Burnat
    Editing
    Véronique Lagoarde - Ségot, Guy Davidi
    Sound
    Wissam Joubran, Adnan Joubran, Samir Joubran

    IDFA history

    2011
    World Premiere
    IDFA Competition for Feature-Length Documentary
    2010
    Supported with €15000 for Classic: Production & postproduction

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