“5 Broken Cameras,” May 17/18, 2013, DVD [2012]. Before writing this I should note that I have opposed the occupation of the West Bank since 1972, when I began to pay attention to those issues. I have opposed the settlements since they began. I still do. Emad Burnat is a Palestinian farmer whose West Bank village’s lands are being seized for apartment construction by Israeli settlers. A fence, and later, a wall (part of “the wall”?), are constructed through the lands separating farmers from their fields–and the settlers. Israeli soldiers control the access. Sometimes there is access. Sometimes there isn’t access for hours. Olive groves are sometimes burned or torn down, activist friends are killed or shot (one is shot in the leg, torture style, while in custody and that is filmed), demonstrations rise up, arrests are made, and over time, his cameras keep being broken or shot by the IDF. His cameras are his vehicle to survival and to struggle. These struggles are framed around the birth and first 5 years of his fourth son, showing the tragic and the hopeful. Nominated for an Oscar for “Best Documentary,” it lost out to “Searching for Sugarman”. IDF troops are portrayed as mindless automatons and settlers (Hasidic Jews) are only shown as hatred-filled extremists threatening to sue the protestors. Israeli allies strongly oppose the occupation; they lend support in person and in the courts. Indeed, one is his co-producer on the film. This is one part of one side of the story, the villager’s side. This is also the struggle of the unarmed (except for rocks), non-violent resistance, and, of course, his cameras.