Synopsis
Five Broken Cameras (2011) is a documentary you can watch online for a rare first-person view from the ground. Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat picks up his first camera in 2005, meaning only to film the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel.
Soon the lens leaves the house. His village of Bil'in, in the West Bank, turns to nonviolent protest as a separation barrier rises across its fields and nearby settlements expand. Emad keeps filming everything — uprooted olive trees, clashes, arrests, the deaths of people he knew — and one camera after another is wrecked along the way. Five broken cameras end up framing five years of his life. He cut the film together with Israeli co-director Guy Davidi.
What gives it weight is the personal lens: a vast, painful subject told not as a news bulletin but through one man and his family. The film earned an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary. Stream Five Broken Cameras (2011) online on iFILM.
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