DocHouse and Open City Docs Fest present…
5 BROKEN CAMERAS London Premiere
+ Q&A with both directors, Emad Burnat coming especially from the West Bank
Screening Thursday 21st June | 7.30pm | Riverside Studios | £7/5 concs
Palestinian farm laborer Emad has five video cameras - each tells a different part of the story of resistance
Using the first camera Emad recorded how the bulldozers came to rip the olive trees out of the ground in 2005 but was prevented from filming further as his camera was broken in the protest. Yet, Emad keeps on filming with new cameras despite pleas from his wife, who fears reprisals. It makes for an intensely powerful personal document about one village's struggle against violence and oppression. ‘We made this film with sincere initiative, trying to avoid all the clichés’ and traps as much as we could, and to challenge our own prejudgments’.
‘Eloquence, spare cinematic metaphor and intimate personal vision create a visceral, first-person story of non-violent resistance in Bil’in’ (Hotdocs)
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Guy David and Emad Burnat who is visiting from the West Bank for this London Premiere.
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