7pm, Friday, Oct 23, Solidarity with Palestine film showing, "5 Broken Cameras", ANSWER Office, 2nd floor of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles 2936 West 8th Street Between Vermont and Westmoreland Metro Red and Purple lines to Vermont/Wilshire
Join Answer-LA for a special screening of the first-ever Palestinian film to be nominated for best Documentary Feature by A.M.P.A.S?, the critically-acclaimed 5 BROKEN CAMERAS is a deeply personal, first-hand account of life and resistance in Bil?in, 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 is structured in chapters around the destruction of each one of Burnat?s cameras. The filmmakers? collaboration follows one family?s 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 with the astute powers of perception that only children possess. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify and lives are lost in this cinematic diary and unparalleled record of life in the West Bank.
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