This is a special screening of Emad Burnat’s and Guy Davidi’s critically-acclaimed and deeply personal first-hand account of life and non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements.

Shot by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, Gibreel, the film was co-directed by Burnat and Guy Davidi, an Israeli filmmaker. Structured in chapters around the destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over five years of village upheaval. As the years pass in front of the camera, we witness Gibreel grow from a newborn baby into a young boy who observes the world unfolding around him with the astute powers of perception that only children possess. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify and lives are lost in this cinematic diaryand unparalleled record of life in the West Bank.

The screening will be followed by refreshments and a discussion.

 “An acclaimed film from an unyielding cameraman … compelling.” Ethan Bronner, The New York Times

“Shows life in one Palestinian village … the movie is necessary viewing … a rigorous and moving work of art.” A. O. Scott, The New York Times

“Eye-opening … proudly defiant … a work that captures so many largely unreported details.” Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

Doors open at 14.00 for 15.00 start.

Tickets

Museum entrance £2/screening free

Voluntary donations, large and small, will be collected for the children’s library in Belt Hanina, Palestine.

For advance bookings, call 020 7840 2200, or email info@cinemamuseum.org.uk

Sponsored by the Lambeth & Wandsworth Palestine Solidarity Campaign in memory of Jim Lusted; lwpsc2013@gmail.com