5 Broken Cameras (15)

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Tue Oct 16 2012

When Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat bought a video camera in 2005, it was to film his newborn son. Around the same time, the Israelis began building a ‘security fence’ in his village – supposedly to stop suicide bombers, but also to cordon off land from the village to build Israeli houses. The villagers started a peaceful protest against the bulldozers. Every week, after Friday prayers at the mosque, they marched to the fence brandishing olive branches. And Burnat became their unofficial cameraman. He’s edited five years of footage into this documentary – a tough watch that’ll leave you despairing of peace anytime soon. No, it’s not balanced. This is one man in one Palestinian village watching his son take his first steps and observing his friends protest – and die. But it is incredibly moving (his son’s early words include ‘army’ and ‘cartridge’), and it cuts through the them-and-us politics of the conflict to the struggles of daily life.
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Release details

Rated:

15

UK release:

Fri Oct 19 2012

Duration:

95 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi

Screenwriter:

Guy Davidi

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Rated as: 4/5 (3 ratings)
  • HE GETS MY VOTE for a auperbly candid observation of life around him

    Lindsey Wed Apr 3
    Rated as: 5/5
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  • To Jon Rawson and anyone who mighty support Israel. Imagine yourself living with your family peacfully and happily in you home, surrounded by your neighbors who you know since you was born. Then suddenly a gang of armed foreigners come to your place, kill the people that you love and threaten others to force them out of their homes. Can you live peacefully with such invaders? Can you accept to share your life, land and air with them and tolerate the idea that they become the power and the official government in what used to be your country? All over the world people migrate to live under the rules of the country to where they go. They don't commit crimes to change the population and the government of that country except the Zionists. They built their illegal entity using a false claim that God promised them to have their state on the Holly Land. No one in this world have the right to deprive a nation from its land, life, fortune, homes, memories, history and children. Does anyone know that the Palestinian families lost contacts with their members when they fled their country under the threat of the massacres that the Zionists committed in Palestine? Lots of them died. Some children were sold to Zionist families or to child trafficking mafias in Europe.

    Rana Fri Mar 15
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  • I saw this movie after that I am thinking some body took your home then what to do . This is not human they are evil who will capture without any permission in your body. Should be help all countries to these people who is suffering this issues. I hope allah will help all of them

    shahid ahmad siddique Fri Feb 22
    Rated as: 3/5
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  • Frank - there is always someone willing to defend the devil. ... unfortunately.

    ARCHGATE Fri Oct 19 2012
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  • Hey Jon, tell that to the families torn in two by the fence, or the people whose land has been grabbed by an aggressive government. Oh, and go to Gaza and ask the hundreds killed by unwarranted Israeli shelling about their 'willingness to withdraw'.

    frank Tue Oct 16 2012
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  • Thanks for the health warning that the film may not be "balanced". In life nothing is black and white as often portrayed, but in reality various shades of gray. Indeed I note the reviewers use of inverted commas around the words 'Security fence' suggesting the writer is disinclined to believe what for many is an indisputable fact that the citizens of Israel, both Arabs and Jews, are at less at risk of suicide bombing today than prior to the erection of the ugly barrier. Some of us continue to live in hope that in future there will be peace between the parties and no further need for the fence! Given the history of Israel's willingness to withdraw from the Sinai, Gaza etc in an effort to promote peace, the fence will go when no longer required.

    Jon Rawson Tue Oct 16 2012
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  • A teriffic, dramatoic film of heroically dogged determination to document the callous brutality of the Israeli state and bureacracy. One of the top highlights of Sheffield DocFest - don't miss!

    Paul Murphy Mon Oct 15 2012
    Rated as: 5/5
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