When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born, Emad, a Palestinian villager, gets his first camera. In his village, Bil'in, a separation barrier is being built and the villagers start to resist this decision. For more than five years, Emad films the struggle, which is led by two of his best friends, alongside filming how Gibreel grows. Very soon it affects his family and his own life. Daily arrests and night raids scare his family; his friends, brothers and himself are either shot or... (Full plot summary below)
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When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born, Emad, a Palestinian villager, gets his first camera. In his village, Bil'in, a separation barrier is being built and the villagers start to resist this decision. For more than five years, Emad films the struggle, which is led by two of his best friends, alongside filming how Gibreel grows. Very soon it affects his family and his own life. Daily arrests and night raids scare his family; his friends, brothers and himself are either shot or arrested. One camera after another is shot at or smashed. Each of the 5 cameras tells part of his story.
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| Total FilmPhilip KempA hugely powerful, moving study of a small village's stand against overwhelming state power. Despite all the suffering and injustice, the final message is one of optimism that feels neither facile nor tacked-on. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA remarkable documentary which charts the impact on a Palestinian village, and one of its children, of Israeli oppression during the past five years. |
| Gay City NewsSteve Erickson... the very fact that Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers could come together and collaborate on a film dealing with such contentious subject matter offers more optimism than anything in "Five Broken Cameras" itself. |
| Observer (UK)Philip FrenchIt presents with overwhelming power a case of injustice on a massive scale, and gives us a direct experience of what it's like to be on the receiving end of oppression and dispossession ... |
| VarietyLeslie FelperinAn undeniably powerful record of the Palestinian village of Bil'in's course of civil disobedience from 2005 to the present...the pic is also shamelessly sentimental and manipulative in its construction. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonA touching and revelatory piece of film-making about the plights of real people living in an uncertain world. |
| Time OutCath ClarkeA tough watch that'll leave you despairing of peace anytime soon. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsEach broken camera records a human tragedy as it flickers with its last gaze. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawIt is of course a one-sided film, but a powerful personal testimony: the kind of material that never makes the nightly news. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern5 Broken Cameras is short on facts and, like the demonstrations themselves, provocative by nature. Still, it casts a baleful light on anguishing, seemingly incessant scenes of tear gas hurled, bullets fired, villagers fleeing for their lives and, on one shocking occasion, a life lost as the camera rolls. This is how the conflict looks from the other side of the barrier. |
