You Don't Like the Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo (2010)

Original title

You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo

Directed by

Patricio Henriquez, Luc Côté

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary shows the recorded interrogations of Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was held at Guantanamo as a teenager. It includes those tapes plus commentary from his lawyers and former cellmates about his treatment.

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What happens

You Don't Like The Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo is a 2010 documentary. The film focuses on the recorded interrogations of Canadian child soldier Omar Khadr, by Canadian intelligence personnel that took place over four days from February 13–16, 2003 while he was held at Guantanamo. It presents these with observations by his lawyers and former cell mates from the Bagram Theater Internment Facility and Guantanamo Bay detention camps. The film premiered at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal in October 2010. The film was shown to Canadian parliamentarians in October 2010. Khadr's defence attorney's planned to show the film during their summation if Khadr's trial went forward. According to the Montreal Gazette the film-makers Luc Côté and Patricio Henríquez also produced a series of short YouTube videos as a companion to the feature-length documentary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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