Palestinian-Israeli documentary wins jury prize at international festival

[Jefferson23]

5 Broken Cameras wins Special Jury award, the second-most prestigious prize handed out at the festival, which closed on Sunday in Amsterdam.
By Nirit Anderman

The film, "5 Broken Cameras," directed by Palestinian cameraman Emad Burnat and Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi, captured two awards on Sunday at the world's largest feature-length documentary film festival, the IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ), coming away with the Special Jury and Audience Award.

The Special Jury award is the second-most prestigious prize handed out at the festival, which closed on Sunday in the Dutch city.

"5 Broken Cameras," made in cooperation with the Channel 8 television station and the New Fund for Cinema and Television, is a joint Palestinian-Israeli-Dutch-French production that presents the story of Burnat, a resident of the West Bank village of Bil'in. Over a period of more than six years, Burnat documented the struggle against the occupation waged by two of his good friends, while also filming his son growing up.

The struggle soon begins to influence Burnat's life as well as that of his family. Daytime arrests and nighttime raids strike fear into the family; his friends and brothers are arrested, injured by gunfire or taken into custody and imprisoned. Camera after camera is destroyed or shot up, and each one symbolizes a chapter in his life.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/palestinian-israeli-documentary-wins-jury-prize-at-international-festival-1.398377

5 Broken Cameras: Film Review
1:45 PM PST 11/26/2011 by Deborah Young

Emand Burnat and Guy Davidi tell the story of Israeli-Palestinian conflict through raw video footage.
However familiar the conflict between West Bank Palestinians and the Israeli army has become in documentary films, 5 Broken Cameras has an immediacy and a tenacious narrative thread that re-ignite interest. Over the last five years, self-taught cameraman Emad Burnat, who lives in the village of Bil’in, and experienced Israeli filmmaker and editor Guy Davidi teamed up to tell the story of Bil’in’s resistance to the encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot through the lens of five video cameras which are progressively destroyed in the course of the film, along with Burnat’s heavily injured body, this well-made doc draws the viewer deep inside a Palestinian family in a highly personal tale that should make the transition from festivals to TV.

It won the Special Jury and Audience Award at Amsterdam’s IDFA documentary festival.

Burnat bought his first camera in 2005 to film the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel, who becomes a reference point for everything that happens. He’s just in time to document Israeli bulldozers uprooting the village’s ancient olive trees, a principle source of livelihood and a symbol of their connection to the land. Next, a wall is constructed through village fields to separate the burgeoning Israeli settlements from the Palestinians.

in full: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/5-broken-cameras-film-review-266430

[Turbineguy]

1. Maybe this can succeed

where everything else seems to have failed.

Hope springs eternal.

[King_David]

2. Thankfully for them,BDS is a failure.

:bounce:

[azurnoir]

3. BDS would not apply to this film

aww shucks right, but I'm sure your overjoyed that stories like these get shown to the world hopefully there will be more from these film makers

[King_David]

7. Dupe

[King_David]

8. Your their spokesman

Or hoping they would exempt this Movie .

Very Insightful,thanks.

;)

[azurnoir]

11. no however a joint Palestinian Israeli project it would not really come under BDS

were you hoping to see it banned?

[Violet_Crumble]

4. That film sounds like it's worth keeping an eye out for n/t

[Scurrilous]

5. Thanks.

:thumbsup:

[Jefferson23]

9. You're welcome. The film has been included at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.

The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the 16 American documentaries and 12 World Cinema documentaries in competition for 2012, with Lauren Greenfield’s The Queen of Versailles (pictured) chosen to be the opening day U.S. documentary.

The film’s inclusion in the festival line-up was exclusively revealed by realscreen yesterday, along with the inclusions of The House I Live In, Putin’s Kiss, China Heavyweight, 5 Broken Cameras and The Ambassador, all of which are confirmed today as having made the cut.

SNIP** WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Twelve documentaries by some of the most courageous and extraordinary filmmakers working today.

5 Broken Cameras / Palestine, Israel, France (Directors: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi) — A Palestinian journalist chronicles his village’s resistance to a separation barrier being erected on their land and in the process captures his young son’s lens on the world. International Premiere

Read more: http://realscreen.com/2011/11/30/breaking-queen-of-versailles-to-open-sundance-2012/#ixzz1fFHiwGMa

[LeftishBrit]

6. I hope to get the chance to see that; sounds really interesting!

[King_David]

10. Thanks for posting

:thumbsup:

[azurnoir]

12. will you be going to see it ?

perhaps you can write a review for us :-)