An AMAZING Director has set his sights on Guantanamo

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RFE/RL
17.02.2006
Ron Synovitz
A sometimes-harrowing film about the Guantanamo Bay detention center garners plaudits just as a UN report puts a critical spotlight on the detention of terror suspects by the United States.

A film telling how three British Muslims ended up in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay is considered a favorite to take the top prize at this week's Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Bear, when the award is announced on 18 February.

The film, "The Road to Guantanamo," tells how three young Muslim men left their home town of Tipton, England in 2001 for a wedding in Afghanistan -- and ended up as terrorist suspects in the U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The film blends interviews and real news footage from 2001 with staged interviews and reenactments set in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and at Guantanamo Bay.


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I saw Michael Winterbottom's "In This World" and "Welcome to Sarajevo"

There are few directors in the world I know of that stand more strongly by people oppressed or attacked. I'm very excited to see this.

[marmar]

1. Wow...

In This World was great. I never saw Welcome to Sarajevo - that's with Woody Harrelson, right?

[Terran1212]

3. Yes, Woody Harrelson

Great film

I think John Malkovich is in it, too

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Many prisoners in GITMO are there b/c of Pakistanis who sold

them for bounties offered by the U.S. They were not political or military. They were just available. I got this firsthand from Captain James Yee, the former Muslim military chaplain at Guantanamo Bay.