Kino Lorber has released a trailer for Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi’s powerful film ’5 Broken Cameras’, chronicling a West Bank village’s resistance against invading Israeli settlements. The film was shot by a Palestinian farmer named Emad Burnat, and was shot with five different video cameras, all of which were broken — sometimes in extremely harrowing situations — throughout the process of filming. A pretty interesting cinematic conceit. Here’s the synposis:

An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later given to Israeli co-director Guy Davidi to edit. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Burnat’s cameras, the filmmakers’ collaboration follows one family’s evolution over five years of village turmoil. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify, and lives are lost. “I feel like the camera protects me,” he says, “but it’s an illusion.”

’5 Broken Cameras’ opens this weekend in NYC at the Film Forum and is playing through June 12. Check out the Kino Lorber website for more info on upcoming screening dates.