Beyond the Classroom presents the award-winning documentary "5 Broken Cameras" on Monday, October 6th at 7:00 pm!

An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 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 film was assembled by Burnat and Israeli co-director Guy Davidi. 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.”

·         Nominated for 2012 Academy Award, Best Documentary Feature

·         2012 Sundance Film Festival, World Cinema Directing Award, Documentary

·         "As we watch… we see what Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., meant when they said that nonviolence takes more courage and inner strength than most believe..." — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice.

·          "Displays both distinction and the emergence of a significant talent. Presents vivid witness to the power of the image to help with...healing." – George Robinson, The Jewish Week

Monday, October 6, 7:00-9:00 pm

1102 South Campus Commons, Building 1

This series on “Ensuring a World Fit for Children?” is sponsored by

Beyond the Classroom Living & Learning Program, Office of Undergraduate Studies,

at the University of Maryland, College Park

WWW.BeyondTheClassroom.umd.edu