5 Broken Cameras

Amateur cameraman Emad Burnat managed to capture in a unique way the several-years-long struggle of his village in the West Bank in Jordan against the colonial effort to seize its territory in favor of illegal construction. A strongly personal film about the reality of a fence that suddenly separates the village inhabitants from their fields, weekly demonstrations or harassment and violence by the Israeli security forces is composed in five acts—framed by the five cameras, which Burnat uses over the time to film with and which are one by one broken in the conflict.

PS/IL/FR/NL, 2011, 94 min.; he, ar / sk tit