Featuring
Guy Davidi & Emad Burnat · 2011 · 1h30m
Inspiring, devastating and exquisite, this doc is part home movie, part resistance journal, part memorial and part impossible collaboration.
Wednesday, Feb. 14, 6:30pm
5 Broken Cameras
An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the film was assembled by Burnat and Israeli co-director Guy Davidi. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over five years of village turmoil. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify, and lives are lost.
This screening will be followed by a discussion led and facilitated by Oula Hajjar, a community organizer and activist who has worked on several campaigns for social justice in the Middle East as a member of the Montreal-based solidarity group Tadamon. She is currently doing her PhD in Social Work at McGill university focusing on social transformations in rural Lebanon and how ordinary people contribute to social change.
