This low-budget documentary is about five years, and five cameras, in the life of a Palestinian man, Emad Burna. He bought his first camera to record the birth of his youngest son in 2005. Over the next five years he goes through five cameras as each is destroyed by violence resulting from conflicts over new Israeli settlements that encroach, along with a wall, Burna’s village of Bil’in. The film kind of goes along at first, setting the scene and creating the context for what will … [Read more...]
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