Palestinian Film Screenings – Session 2

Over the next few weeks, Cool Change will work with Friends of Palestine Western Australia (FOPWA) members to present films that tell stories of Palestinian hope, truth, history, and resistance.

We will be screening one film in our office this Sunday, 19 November, at 5:30 PM. Attendance is free, but donations to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) are encouraged. We also encourage guests to register as members of FOPWA.

Drinks are available, with profits going to PRCS. Snacks will be provided, with basic dietary requirements catered for. You are also welcome to BYO. As seating is limited, you may also wish to bring your own cushion or chair.

Please RSVP via Eventbrite here.

Doors: 5:30 PM (Please text or call the mobile number at the front door for building access)
Screening: 5:45 PM – 7:20 PM

For our second FOPWA × CC screening, we will be watching:

Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, 5 Broken Cameras, 2011
Runtime: 95 min

Winner at the Sundance Film Festival, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later given to Israeli co-director Guy Davidi to edit.

Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over five years of village turmoil. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify, and lives are lost. “I feel like the camera protects me”, he says, “but it’s an illusion”.