
Five Broken Cameras
2011 · 7.5/10
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Director & actor · born 1 January 1971 · Palestine
Emad Burnat is a Palestinian farmer and filmmaker born in 1971. He is the first Palestinian nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
His documentary "5 Broken Cameras" is a first-hand account of life and protests in Bil'in, a West Bank village adjacent to Israeli settlements. The film was co-directed by Burnat and Guy Davidi, an Israeli filmmaker. The film is structured in chapters around the destruction of each of Burnat's cameras and follows the evolution of a family over the course of five years of village upheaval.
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By viewer score, Five Broken Cameras (2011) at 7.5/10.
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2 films on TMDB, 1 as director, 1 as actor.