5 Broken Cameras (2012)

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Hey, I understand; we can't expect someone inside of a conflict to present the whole conflict. And Five Broken Cameras certainly shows us how things look when you're in the midst of it.However, our narrator is not just biased; he is also intentionally less than honest, omitting details that might muddy his narrative of a small peaceful village being put upon by invasive developers. Plenty happens, but rarely in cause-and-effect terms that make clear why. Even one-sided presentations need to make sense.There is a truth here that supersedes what the filmmaker intends. While presented as an Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is also an urban-rural conflict: the city expands, takes up land; the locals object to incursion into "their" land; the urban police enforce the expansion. This film captures how that is experienced by the rural villagers -- with no understanding of the urban view, or understanding of how to deal with it, except to see it as a violation that requires resistance.Rather besides the filmmaker's story is what it portends for later: he brings his three-year-old to the barrier demonstrations, which we have already seen to become dangerous; he frames perception of the police as life-threatening outsiders; he frames the whole narrative of his sons' lives in terms of what indignities Israel was perpetrating. Finally, he continuously acts to make his own martyrdom as likely as possible. This is textbook "How To Raise Your Son To Be A Terrorist", and we get to see exactly how & why, by people who only want to do their best for their kids.

WOW!! What can I say? I'll tryI have just finished watching this fabulous movie and, right now, I now feel an overwhelming compulsion to write this review, something that I don't normally do unless a movie is either stunningly good or terribly bad.I will try to avoid the question of whether Israel should actually exist in the first place. Were it not for movies like this one that show what greed and disregard for human life is really all about, one might reasonably argue that the State of Israel possibly has some rights in the area that was formerly all Palestine.This movie is really about the rapacious and greedy nature of Israel and its determination to take over lands that it was never given any mandate to occupy; in this case the West Bank.This is s story in documentary and indisputably factual style of the brutality which is daily meted out to the people of Palestine who have had their lands conquered by a force that is pretty well irresistible to them, the Israeli Army. It is a story of the struggle of basically defenceless people against an occupation of their lands that they have no hope of winning in the absence of concerted public opinion from the world outside the occupied territories. Tragically, that is the only possible hope that the Palestinian people have of resisting the further rape and occupation of their traditional lands. How very ironic that a people who suffered terribly under the Nazis during WWII should treat the people of Palestine in much the same way that they were themselves treated by the Nazis.This movie demonstrates, in the most graphic way possible, the struggle and sacrifice of a people who have been oppressed by the State of Israel and the Israeli Army since 1967. The courage that it took for these plain, ordinary people to stand up for their rights is almost beyond imagining; certainly it would probably not have been so if not for the courage of this amateur cameraman and his fellow Palestinians.There are very few matters in the modern world in which the question is simply one of right and wrong. This is one such matter. The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is against international law and in blatant defiance and disregard of the United Nations and its many resolutions over the last 49 years.See this movie please and know that it is a true portrayal of the struggle of the Palestinian people against naked aggression and the infliction of death and injury, most disproportionately in the face of the peaceful protests of these Palestinians. These people are truly courageous and should be lauded by all in the civilized world. 9 out of 10 from me (I never give 10 to anything).JMV

This document received so many Awards From Sundance festival to others, Can someone explain me why the hell every other movie on IMDb has Award section popping out immediately on a website but this movie NOT???? "5 Broken Cameras won the World Cinema Directing Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. it won the 2013 International Emmy Award.The film also received the Special Broadcaster IDFA Audience Award and the Special Jury Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2011. In addition, the film won the Golden Apricot at the 2012 Yerevan International Film Festival, for Best Documentary Film, the Van Leer Group Foundation Award for Best Israeli Documentary at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2012, and the Busan Cinephile Award at the 17th Busan International Film Festival in 2012. 5 Broken Cameras was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards Nominated for Best Documentary Feature in the 85th Academy Awards, and for the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary of 2012...

5 Broken Cameras (2011) is a Palestinian documentary film directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi. The movie is narrated by Emad Burnat, who films life and strife in his village in the occupied West Bank.Living in an occupied territory will always be frustrating and, at times, humiliating. However, the major issue that the film follows is the building of huge Israeli "settlements" in the occupied territory. (The "settlements" look like large, fortress-like, apartment complexes.)Although we have all seen footage of Palestinians throwing rocks, and Israeli soldiers responding with teargas and rubber bullets, Burnat films less dramatic instances of nonviolent resistance by Palestinian villagers. As a participant-observer, Burnat is himself vulnerable. He was seriously injured in one skirmish. The title "Five Broken Cameras" refers to Burnat's own cameras, which were smashed during confrontations with Israeli soldiers. (Some of the cameras were purposely destroyed, while others were hit by rubber bullets.)Whatever your position is about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it's useful to see a film that presents the Palestinian perspective. We saw this movie at Rochester's Little Theatre as part of the excellent Witness Palestine Film Series. It will work better on a large screen, but it's worth seeing on DVD if that's the only option available. Five Broken Cameras was nominated for an Oscar in 2012 as Best Foreign Film.