International Competition

5 BROKEN CAMERAS

Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
Screening time  
29.02. / Wednesday, 20:00 - 22:00 Theatre 5  
02.03. / Friday, 15:00 - 17:00 Theatre 3  
03.03. / Saturday, 18:00 - 20:00 Theatre 2  
Powerful personal document about one village's struggle against violence and oppression.

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.

Emad Burnat

Emad Burnat is a Palestinian freelance cameraman and photographer with experience filming for Al-Jazeera and Palestinian Television.

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Guy Davidi

Born in Jaffa, acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi, has been making films since a young age. After evading the Israeli army Davidi started to make films focusing on highly charged political issues with a deeply emotional tone and an innovative approach. His most known film 5 Broken Cameras, co-directed with Palestinian Emad Burnat, was nominated to the Oscar in 2012 and won an Emmy for Best Documentary in 2013. The film has since been considered as an astounding achievement of the Palestinian-Israeli peace movement. His new film Innocence, based on 10 years of research, is an epic portrait of his own disturbed country.

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5 Broken Cameras

Palestina, Israel, France
2011, 90', color/bw, video

Directed by:
Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi

Screenplay by:
Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi

Cinematography:
Emad Burnat

Edited by:
Veronique Lagoarde-Segot, Guy Davidi

Music:
Le Trio Joubran

Producers:
Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi

Produced by:
Burnat Films Palestine, Guy DVD Films, Alegría Productions

Festivals & Awards:

IDFA 2011 - Special Jury Award, Audience Award;Greenhouse pitching forum 2009 - The Best Project Award