Gitmo: The New Rules of War (2006)

Original title

Gitmo

Directed by

Tarik Saleh, Erik Gandini

Genre

documentary film

Country

Denmark, Sweden

Runtime

1h 22m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary explores the Guantanamo Bay detention camp through interviews with former guards, officials, and a released Swedish detainee. It shows the conditions and policies inside the camp while questioning the legal and ethical rules of war.

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What happens

Gitmo: The New Rules of War is a Swedish documentary about the Guantanamo Bay detention camp by Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh. The film features interviews with Janis Karpinski, Mehdi Ghezali and Geoffrey Miller, among others. Gitmo premiered at IDFA in 2005 and reached mainstream theaters in Sweden on 10 February 2006. In 2003, a year after Swedish citizen Mehdi Ghezali was detained at "Gitmo", which sparked some media interest in Sweden, Erik and Tarik started filming the documentary and visited the base on a guided tour of selected areas. Mehdi Ghezali was released in 2004, and was interviewed for the film. In 2006, the musical score composed by Krister Linder won first prize for music in a TV feature at the Festival international Musique et Cinéma in Auxerre, France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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