In the next five months, Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography will present a monthly film series at Cirko-Gejz\u00edr Cinema in Budapest, featuring works that have rarely, or never, been screened in Hungary. Each film examines everyday camera use, image-making practices, and the relationships people maintain with lens-based media across the mundane, the personal, and the political.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every film screens three times a month \u2013 find the date that suits you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first film is \u20185 Broken Cameras\u2019, a documentary co-directed by Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat and Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi. Structured around five broken cameras, the film tells the story of Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil\u2019in, a village that became known for its nonviolent resistance after the Israeli army encroached on its land to expand nearby settlements. Burnat bought his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son. Over time, however, he became a quiet archivist of intensifying destruction and oppression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The film received numerous international accolades: it won an award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, the Golden Apricot for Best Documentary at the 2012 Yerevan International Film Festival, the 2013 International Emmy Award for Documentary, and was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Additionally, in 2012, it won the Best Human Rights Documentary award and the Audience Award at the 9th Verzi\u00f3 Film Festival, Budapest.
The film will be screened three times \u2013 on 13, 24, and 28 May at 18:30 \u2013 with English and Hungarian subtitles. Before the screening, a short video essay by one of the authors of Eidolon Journal will be shown, contextualising the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tickets can be purchased at this link.<\/strong><\/a>
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