A beautiful tribute to Pina Bausch, a German dancer choreographer who pioneered the modern dance genre. The film consists of Pina's troupe of dancers performing several of her dances on stage and in real world settings. The dance numbers are segued with close-ups of each dancer and we hear their voices dubbed in telling stories of Pina and how she inspired and shaped them.
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5 Broken Cameras
(2011)
The Side Often Unseen
19 February 2017
In Western media we are usually only exposed to the Israeli side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This documentary provides the viewer with a glimpse into the Palestinian side. Emad Burnat is a Palestinian farmer living in Bil'in, a small village close to the West Bank. The land his family has farmed for generations is being slowly encroached upon by settlements the Israelis are building in the West Bank. He purchases his first camera to capture the birth and childhood of his youngest son. Along with his son's childhood he captures the building of a wall that cuts through the village's olive groves and the violence that befalls the villagers as they use nonviolent protest against the taking of their land by the Israeli government. The title of the documentary gets its name from the fact that Burnat has five different cameras destroyed in one way or another by Israeli soldiers as he films what is happening to his village. I highly recommend this documentary so that one at least knows what the side often unseen in this conflict endures.
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