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5 Broken Cameras (2011)

5 Broken Cameras ( Khamas Kamīrāt Muḥaṭṭamah; Hamesh Matslemot Shvurot) is a 94 minute documentary film co-directed by Palestinian Emad Burnat and Israeli Guy Davidi. It was shown at film festivals in 2011 and placed in general release by Kino Lorber in 2012. 5 Broken Cameras is a first-hand account of protests in Bil'in, a West Bank village affected by the Israeli West Bank barrier. The documentary was shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son. In 2009 Israeli co-director Guy Davidi joined the project. Structured around the destruction of Burnat's cameras, the filmmakers' collaboration follows one family's evolution over five years of turmoil. The film won a 2012 Sundance Film Festival award, it won the [http://www.gaiff.am/en/home/ Golden Apricot] at the 2012 Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenia, for Best Documentary Film, and was nominated for a 2012 Academy Award.

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Distributor: Kino Lorber
Release date: November 23, 2011
Running time: 90 minutes
Gross: $108,541 (USA) (15 February 2013))

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