Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat had a story to tell, and he spent five years filming it. Emad wanted to document his village’s resistance to Israeli often violent settlers. This month his touching documentary about a real and ongoing human tragedy will be screened in the Sundance film festival. Imad now has five broken cameras and each camera tells of a tale from his village.
Luckily, Emad was not alone in this project, he has worked with an Israeli co-director Guy Davidi, “5 Broken Cameras” was shown in competition on the first weekend of the world-renowned independent film festival, which runs until January 29 in the US ski resort of Park City, Utah.
This film project was never meant to be a documentary, it's just people telling their stories and then those stories snow-baled into a full documentary. In 2009 Imad called up Guy saying he wanted to make a documentary out of his footage. And three years later the movie is now in Sundance. Imad took a big risk by revealing himself as Israeli soldiers are a stone throw away from his home.
The Arabic narration is very emotional, he tells of stories about people who are unafraid to die as they are trying to survive.
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