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ABOUT THE FILM
“Nominated for an Oscar, 5 Broken Cameras
is a deeply personal first-hand account of life and nonviolent resistance in
Bil’in, a West Bank village where Israel is building a security fence.
Palestinian Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the
birth of his youngest son, shot the film and Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi
co-directed. The filmmakers follow one family’s evolution over five years,
witnessing a child’s growth from a newborn baby into a young boy who observes
the world unfolding around him. The film is a Palestinian-Israeli-French
co-production”
“We
hope people will put aside pre-judgments and approach the film with fresh eyes.
We think it is easy to shut down when watching a film that deals with such pain
and controversy, and reduce the experience to a series of binaries: right and
wrong, good and bad, Palestinian and Israeli. We urge viewers to set aside
these oversimplifications to fully embrace the complexity, beauty, and emotion
of the circumstance”
—PERSONAL STATEMENT FROM
GUY DAVIDI AND EMAD BURNAT, CO-DIRECTORS OF 5 BROKEN CAMERAS
After watching 5 Broken Cameras discuss the following, while providing examples and evidence.
• The film shows Palestinian and Israeli
activists working together to challenge and resist the building of the wall and
the occupation. How does this form of “co-resistance” differ from more
traditional ideas about promoting “co-existence”? Compare the protest
strategies used by the residents of Bil’in with strategies of other resisters
you have seen or learned about. What’s similar and what’s different?
• During one scene in the film, Israeli
soldiers uproot olive trees using Caterpillar construction equipment. Despite
their well-documented use in systematic human rights violations, Caterpillar
machines are sold to the Israeli military through the Foreign Military Sales
Program, which is in place to facilitate the sales of weapons to US allies. The
cost of their purchase is subsidized by US monetary assistance to Israel. Given
this situation, do you think that Americans bear any responsibility for the
injustices documented in this film or other injustices in Israel and Palestine?
What can we do about what we saw in this film? What are actions we can take or
campaigns we can support in order to challenge the Israeli occupation of
Palestine?
• In your opinion, what role do filmmaking
and other forms of art play in efforts to end the occupation of Palestine or
spark social change? What is the contribution of this particular film to
achieving those goals?
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