Film Reviews: Shot largely by local man Emad Burnat on the titular quintet of wrecked rigs, docu "Five Broken Cameras" is an undeniably powerful record of the Palestinian village of Bil'in's course of civil disobedience from 2005 to the present, as the residents collectively resist the building of Israeli settlements. Co-helmed by Burnat and Israeli Guy Davidi, the pic is also shamelessly sentimental and manipulative in its construction, never resisting a chance to throw up images of saucer-eyed toddlers asking questions like, "Why did the soldiers kill my friend?" Double whammy of pro-Palestinian polemic and film-about-filmmaking subject matter will ensure many more fest bookings. 
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