05 September 2022, 12:00 am
5 Broken Cameras (Israel/France/Netherlands)
Programme Type
Films and Exhibitions, Webcasts
End Date
11 September 2022, 11:59 pm

(95 min; 2011; Hebrew/Arabic and with English subtitles)
Directors: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi

Multiple award winner including World Cinema Documentary Directing Award, Sundance 2012; Audience Award and Special Jury Award, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival 2011; Cinema Eye Honors Award, USA 2013 for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking; Louis Marcorelles Award, Cinéma du Réel 2012; Emmy Award for Documentary, International Emmy Awards 2013; Busan Cinephile Award, Pusan International Film Festival 2012; among others

For the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel, Emad bought a camera to film his family. Soon he found another use for the camera, recording the increasingly chaotic scenes taking place around his house. Emad is a Palestinian farmer and his house is in the village of Bil'in where Israeli settlers, backed by the army, are gradually taking the land.

Emad was already well known in the area for putting himself at risk day after day in order to record the actions of the soldiers, when Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi visited the village to make his documentary Interrupted Streams. Davidi stayed in the village for three months while he was filming and during this time came to know Emad and realised that there was a film to be made from his footage. 

A deeply personal account of life in Palestine.