5 Broken Cameras
Five broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he becomes the peaceful archivist of an escalating struggle as olive trees are bulldozed, lives are lost, and a wall is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli settlements.
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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
This document received so many Awards From Sundance festival to others, Can someone explain me why the hell every other movie on IMDb has Award section popping out immediately on a website but this movie NOT???? "5 Broken Cameras won the World Cinema Directing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. it won the 2013 International Emmy Award.The film also received the Special Broadcaster IDFA Audience Award and the Special Jury Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2011. In addition, the film won the Golden Apricot at the 2012 Yerevan International Film Festival, for Best Documentary Film, the Van Leer Group Foundation Award for Best Israeli Documentary at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2012, and the Busan Cinephile Award at the 17th Busan International Film Festival in 2012. 5 Broken Cameras was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards Nominated for Best Documentary Feature in the 85th Academy Awards, and for the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary of 2012...
this documentary was a true and honest eyes to what really happening in the occupied territories by the Zions in Palestine, the events show how the people of the small village Bil'in suffered by the army of the Zions that burned and killed and brook the laws, not humans laws, not world's laws, but them own laws. it has a very real touching scenes witch can make a one shed the tears without he knows, when I watched those scenes and slices from lives of real people I seen those Zions as really they are, not what their press and media whas trying to show us every day in every movie we see. this documentary make me live with El-Phil and Emad and Adeeb and Dabaa for ninety minutes and I wished to live with them some more.I've some many documentaries and movies,an Oscar winning ones. they can't be as good, honest, realistic and lively as this.I'm really wondering and questioning why this can't win an Oscar?!
It is hard not to notice that the creator of this movie decided not to simply document the state of his life, but to create a propaganda film for the Palestinian side regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict. Sometimes, it brings with such an unreliable scenes. For example, there is a scene in which the creator make an accident with his tractor on the barrier. He did not say he did the accident because it was his fault in lack of attention, but says that happened "because of the wall". And where he was treated? in Israeli hospital. But .... instead to say something positive about it, he says, "if they were not treating me there, I would probably not survive." It totally ruined my movie watching. Gives a sense of lack of credibility.
While interesting it is a very flat movie that could have shown both sides fairly. It does not. Nazis will love this film. If I were very ignorant of the Middle East and Levant I would be shocked. Luckily I am not and see this as interesting propaganda. That and Israeli co-directed it is not shocking. The US has Jane Fonda and Michael Moore spouting falsehoods so why not Israel. Luckily, he is an Israeli, because Arab film makers who show things like 5 Broken Cameras get killed. It would have been better had the film shown what was happening in the area when all the cameras were broken. Once it was a puck Israeli, the rest were when fighting was going on. It is odd that one would go into a fire fight then complain that it was dangerous. Getting in between combatants is seldom a good idea. I wondered on the second screening if he had wanted to die, and be a good martyr.
