18 November 2024

Five Broken Cameras

 

Five Broken Cameras 2011

  • Director: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
  • Based on book: no
  • Cast: Documentary
  • Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
    • Documentary
  • Why? The subject
  • Seen:  14 November 2024      

       Emad has lived his whole life on the West Bank. When his fourth son is born he buys a film camera to record his family. He ends up recording his family during the spreading Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.

       The camera is destroyed by Israeli soldiers. He gets a new one. It’s destroyed by Israeli soldiers. He gets a new one. Five in all. He and all his brothers spend time in prison. His baby son gets older and learns by the age of five that Israeli soldiers kill Palestinians.

       It’s now 2024. Now the Israelis are bombing and killing hundreds of Palestinian civilians, every day. Thousands of children, women and men have died. Thousands of Palestinians have been forced to evacuate their homes, thousands of homes have been destroyed. Starvation, untreated injuries and illness, blocked emergency supplies. Is this not terrorism?

       The film is from 2011. See it. 

5* of 5

 

 

 

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