Winner of the People’s Choice Awards at the RIDM, 5 Broken Cameras is an intimate look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as seen through the lens of Emad Burnat, a Palestinian farmer and amateur videographer living in Bil’in, West Bank. In his attempt to create a visual record of the border conflict that unfolds over six years, he has a series of five cameras destroyed. This is just one narrative thread that runs through this autobiograpical film, brilliantly edited by Israeli video activist Guy Davidi.

What better way to beat a gray November day than to follow passionate fruit hunters, Noris Ledesma and Richard Campbell, on their quest to find a “wani” mango in Bali and then rescue a rare durian from the evil clutches of encroaching industrialists in the jungles of Borneo. Their noble mission: to obtain plant grafts to preserve the species for cultivation on the other side of the world. The duo’s obsession with rare fruit is by no means unique, as moviegoers discovered at the world premiere of The Fruit Hunters presented at the 14th annual Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal.