Based on seven hours of video footage recently declassified by the Canadian courts, this documentary delves into the unfolding high-stakes game of cat and mouse between captor and captive over a four-day period. Maintaining a surveillance-camera style, the film analyses the political, legal, and psychological aspects of the interrogation through interviews with Khadr’s lawyers, a psychiatrist, an investigative journalist, former Guantanamo detainees, and a former US interrogator. This unique depiction of Omar Khadr’s interrogation offers an unusual insight into a world where “the truth” itself is often negotiated. (Special Jury Award, IDFA 2010)

Q&A discussions with the filmmakers will take place after both screenings.

Dennis Edney, Omar Khadr's lawyer, will also be present for both Q&A discussions and Moazzam Begg will be present for the Q&A on 25 March.

Human Rights Watch has reported on the detention of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo since early 2002, including on the use of torture, the failure to implement juvenile justice standards, and the inherent problems with the military commissions system created to prosecute certain detainees. Human Rights Watch observers attended military commission proceedings for Omar Khadr, including his recent sentencing hearing, and documented the multiple ways the case failed to meet basic fair trial standards while simultaneously making the US the first Western nation since World War II to prosecute a former child soldier for alleged war crimes.

Presented in association with Amnesty International  and Reprieve

Links to screening details

Location: 

Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London - box office 0871 7033 988

Date and time: 

March 25, 2011 4:00pm +00:00

Location: 

Ritzy Cinema, Brixton Oval, London - box office 0871 902 5739

Date and time: 

March 26, 2011 4:00pm +00:00

Source: Human Rights Watch