{"id":6646,"date":"2013-09-06T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2025-01-28T02:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T00:09:43","slug":"5-broken-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2013\/09\/5-broken-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;5 Broken Cameras&#8221; documentary is a first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil\u2019in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Synopsis<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-broken-cameras-documentary.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"452\" height=\"638\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-broken-cameras-documentary.jpg\" alt=\"5 Broken Cameras\" class=\"wp-image-6647\" style=\"width:319px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-broken-cameras-documentary.jpg 452w, https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-broken-cameras-documentary-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first-ever Palestinian film to be nominated for best Documentary Feature by A.M.P.A.S\u00ae, the critically-acclaimed\u00a0<strong>5 BROKEN CAMERAS<\/strong>\u00a0is a deeply personal, first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil\u2019in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel, the film was co-directed by Burnat and Guy Davidi, an Israeli filmmaker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Structured in chapters around the destruction of each one of Burnat\u2019s cameras, the filmmakers\u2019 collaboration follows one family\u2019s evolution over five years of village upheaval. As the years pass in front of the camera, we witness Gibreel grow from a newborn baby into a young boy who observes the world unfolding around him\u00a0with\u00a0the astute powers of perception that only children\u00a0possess. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify and lives are lost in this cinematic diary and\u00a0unparalleled\u00a0record of life in the West Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5 BROKEN CAMERAS<\/strong>\u00a0is a Palestinian-Israeli-French co-production. \u00a0A Kino Lorber Release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch the Documentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"5 Broken cameras\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/73945145?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first-ever Palestinian film to be nominated for best Documentary Feature by A.M.P.A.S\u00ae, the critically-acclaimed\u00a05 BROKEN CAMERAS\u00a0is a deeply personal, first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil\u2019in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. Shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel, the film was co-directed by Burnat and Guy Davidi, an Israeli filmmaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[926],"tags":[1072,1073,1074,1075],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-6646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentaries","tag-5-broken-cameras-documentary","tag-bilin","tag-emad-burnat","tag-guy-davidi"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.ps\/\">Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justvision.org\/\">Just Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.ps\">The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour is the co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Oral-Histories-Palestine-Palestinians\/dp\/1566561329\/ref=la_B00HBW71SO_1_1\">Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/06\/epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/\">Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-tallest-man-in-ramallah\/\">The Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\">@SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\">www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6652,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6646\/revisions\/6652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6646"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}