“Necessary, if difficult viewing…. Partly a piece of advocacy journalism. But it’s also a visual essay in autobiography and, as such, a modest, rigorous and moving work of art…” – The New York Times

5 Broken Cameras takes an international tragedy and reframes it in light of its impact on the life of one family. When his fourth son, Gibreel, is born, Emad, a Palestinian villager, gets his first camera to film the early years of his new child. In his village, Bil'in, a separation barrier is being built and the villagers start to resist this decision. For more than five years, Emad films the struggle, which is lead by two of his best friends, while at the same time filming the growth of his son. Very soon the struggle begins to have lasting impact on his own life. Daily arrests and night raids scare his family; his friends, his brothers and he himself are either wounded or arrested. One camera after another is shot at or smashed. And each broken camera has a story to tell.

• Directing Award for World Documentary - Sundance Film Festival
• Special Jury Award and Audience Award - IDFA
• Best Feature Documentary - Jerusalem Film Festival
• Grand Jury Award - London Open City Docs Fest 2012
• Audience Award - Sheffield 2012
• The Marshall of Lower Silesia Award - Planete+ Doc Film Festival
• Louis Marcorelle Award - Cinéma du Réel
• Eurodok Award

• Born Into Struggle
• Roadmap to Apartheid
• The Problem

“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians…” – Nelson Mandela, 1997

Ana Nogueira is a white South African and Eron Davidson a Jewish Israeli. Drawing on their first-hand knowledge of the issues, the producers take a close look at the apartheid comparison often used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their film breaks down the rhetorical analogy into a fact-based comparison, noting where the analogy is useful and appropriate, and where it is not. There are many lessons to draw from the South African experience relevant to conflicts all over the world. Narrated by Alice Walker (author of The Color Purple), this film is as much a historical document of the rise and fall of apartheid, as it is a film about why many Palestinians feel they are living in an apartheid system today, and why an increasing number of people around the world agree with them.
www.roadmaptoapartheid.org

• Best Documentary - The Garden State Film Festival 2012
• Best Editing - The Milan International Film Festival 2012v
• The Silver Lei Award - The Honolulu Film Awards 2012
• Excellence in Documentary Film- The 2012 Indie Fest
• Film Heals Award – Manhattan Film Festival 2012

• The Problem
• 5 Broken Cameras
• COINTELPRO 101
• Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry