In France, November is observed as the The MONTH of DOCUMENTARY, a privileged moment to discover documentary cinema.

A wide variety of films on various topics ranging from political, social, artistic and philosophical take part in the festival.

Documentary Circle of Hyderabad joins Alliance Francaise of Hyderabad to bring a set of accomplished documentaries for the discerning and alert viewer on this occasion. The three day fest (26-28 Nov) will be observed at Alliance Francise (26 and 28 Nov) and at Lamakaan (27 Nov).

on Tuesday 27 Nov at LAMAKAAN

5 BROKEN CAMERAS

by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi a Palastine and Algerian co-production

94 min, 2011

Palestinian farm laborer Emad has five video cameras, and each of them tells a different part of the story of his village's resistance to Israeli oppression. Emad lives in Bil'in, just west of the city of Ramallah in the West Bank. Using the first camera, he recorded how the bulldozers came to rip the olive trees out of the ground in 2005. Here, a wall was built directly through his fellow villagers' land to separate the advancing Jewish settlements from the Palestinians.

In the first days of resistance to the Jewish colonists and the ever-present Israeli soldiers, Emad's son Gibreel was born. Scenes shift from the infant growing into a precocious preschooler to the many peaceful acts of protest, and the steady progress of the construction of the dividing wall. Sympathizers from all over the world, including from Israel, provide help as resistance develops, but when the situation intensifies, people are arrested and villagers are killed.

Emad keeps on filming despite pleas from his wife, who fears reprisals. It makes for an intensely powerful personal document about one village's struggle against violence and oppression.

Two filmmakers create one extraordinary work of art.