5 Broken Cameras

Director :Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi
Writer : Guy Davidi

The film is a documentary shot by Emad who lives in Bil'in, a West Bank village. There are 5 cameras each one with it's own story. 
Emad bought his first camera when his fourth son Gibreel was born to film his growing up years. At the same time Israeli Army illegally started capturing land of the villagers, uprooting their Olive tree farms. Villagers protest by demonstrating every Friday. In the process Emad's friends and brothers either get shot or arrested. 
Over the years the violent activities of army increases. They raid village anytime and they even arrest children in the middle of the night. Emad starts showing the footage shot by him to villages nearby so that they can unite and protest together. 
While shooting this footage each os his camera is either smashed or shot. Eventually Emad approaches Israeli filmamker Guy Davidi and together they make film 5 Broken Cameras from the footage shot by Emad.

The documentary has won many awards at many film festivals, and was also nominated for Oscar.

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Director : Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Based on : Un long dimanche de fiançailles by Sébastien Japrisot

Set during WWI the film starts with the conviction of 5 French soldiers accused of self mutilation to escape the war. They are sentenced to be thrown in the no man's land between French and German trench - a certain death. 

Manech a 20 something boy is one of the accused and he desires to return home to his love Mathilde. It is assumed that all the five soldiers died but Mathilde refuses to believe. She starts her investigation by meeting soldiers who witnessed the event, stealing top secret documents, meeting influential high rank officers, etc.

During investigation she discovers stories of the other 4 convict soldiers and the reason behind their activities. 

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