5 Broken Cameras (2011)

Purchasing a camera after the birth of his fourth son, Emad Burnat slowly began using it, and the four that later replaced it in succession, to film his village’s nonviolent resistance to the encroaching illegal Israeli settlements. Similar to the journalists in Burma VJ, Burnat’s work attempts to document the attacks of violence and coercion laid on the protestors by a military that is also willing to go to great lengths to see that the recordings cease to exist. Almost easy to dismiss as simply home movies made by a father, it’s a powerful testament to one part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as witnessed by those whose lives are most gravely affected by the liberties that one side continues to take. 

Oscar Nomination: Best Documentary, Features