5 Broken Cameras Page #5

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Put down the camera.

I'm a journalist

and I'm in my own home.

Put down the camera.

That's an order

Turn the lens to the wall.

Give it to your son,

He can put it down.

Why is he being taken?

The police interrogate me

and accuse me of throwing rocks.

I do time in jail.

My lawyer gets them to release me

under house arrest.

I'm held in a house outside Bil'in.

The camera is pretty much

all I took.

He'll talk to you.

I'm a psychologist.

I do evaluations for the court.

Is that constantly filming?

I'm used to filming.

I haven't done it for a while.

Because I was in jail

and now I'm under house arrest.

It's been a month now.

I've got nothing to do here,

so I film.

Nature gives me new vitality.

I know I have a purpose in life.

The price may be high

but the path I've chosen

is the one meant for me.

It's my destiny.

After a while, I'm back in Bil'in.

My case is closed.

They claim they lost the evidence

I'm happy to see that people

continue to meet at the outpost.

Through our lawsuit

against the barrier,

we,ve discovered a lot about the land

on the other side of the barrier.

We found out that

all the construction was illegal.

We have a warrant

to stop construction

and prohibit occupation

of the new buildings.

I'm off to the demostration.

But, Emad, It's a holy day.

No, not today!

Haven't you had enough problems?

Don't go!

I want us to be together.

It's a holy day

There's no demostration.

Enough with the filming!

I have to go on filming.

All I can hear is

Phil's voice in my other ear.

Your camera's busted.

My third camera

may have saved my life.

The bullet is lodged in it,

as a remainder of life's fragility.

The third camera sustained

from winter 2007 to winter 2008

During this time, it was shot

and repaired twice.

I wanna see it.

- Where you going?

- To the snow.

I have to find the inner strength

to keep on doing

all the good things we like to do.

Daba, get up!

Time passes.

People keep demostrating

on Fridays.

But the barrier wends it's way

to other villages.

People feel that nothing will stop

the occupation from its course.

So I decide to do something

to boost morale.

Screening my footage

allows the villagers

to gain some distance

from those events.

I think it contributes

to the solidarity among us.

It encourages them

to get more villages

to start protesting.

By 2008, many new villages,

alla across the West Banck

adopt the Bil'in struggle

as a model for a new

kind of resistance.

The Israeli government

fears that the protest

will become a third Intifada.

The army is under pressure.

Someone is shot dead in Nil'in,

a nearby village.

So we all go to show our support.

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