5 Broken Cameras(2011)
dir. Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi
Five cameras destroyed. Every one kept filming.
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A Palestinian farmer in Bil'in documents his village's nonviolent resistance to encroaching Israeli settlements over five years, structured around each of his cameras' destruction.
Why it’s here
Shot almost entirely by a Palestinian farmer with no filmmaking background, on cameras that kept getting destroyed and kept getting replaced — testimony in the most literal sense, edited (not directed) into shape by an Israeli co-director after the fact.
Where This Film Lives
- Setting
- Palestine
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