Cinema Out of the Box presents Norman McLaren's short animated film NEIGHBOURS and the documentary film 5 BROKEN CAMERAS by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi (Hebrew/ Arabic with English subtitles) in Parc Lafontaine. "Canadian animator Norman McLaren helms Neighbours, a 1952 comic short funded by the National Film Board of Canada that comments on postwar suburban attitudes and mores. Stylistically groundbreaking in its day, Neighbours employs an unusual technique that became widespread in successive decades. McLaren animates two live actors (Jean-Paul Ladouceur and Grant Munro) via stop motion, as one would animate illustrated characters." — Nathan Southern, Rovi

“'5 Broken Cameras' provides a grim reminder — just in case you needed one — of the bitter intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A chronicle of protest and endurance, punctuated by violence and tiny glimmers of hope, this documentary is unlikely to persuade anyone with a hardened view of the issue to think again...There is no shortage of information and opinion about the Middle East, and this film, made collaboratively by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, is partly a piece of advocacy journalism. But it is also a visual essay in autobiography and, as such, a modest, rigorous and moving work of art." — A. O. Scott, New York Times