The Guantanamo Trap is a documentary film about four individuals whose lives were changed by their association with the Guantanamo Bay detention camps. The film was directed by Thomas Wallner

Thomas Wallner

Thomas Selim Wallner is an award-winning German film-maker, working in Canada.Wallner was a co-founder of Xenophile Media in 2001.He has worked with Rhombus Media since 1995....

 and won the special jury prize at the 2011 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

The four individuals profiled in the film are Murat Kurnaz

Murat Kurnaz

On March 3, 2006, in response to a court order from Jed Rakoff the Department of Defense published a Summarized transcripts from his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.The tribunal that examined the case against Kurnaz lasted for forty minutes....

, a Turkish citizen raised in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, who was arrested in Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 and sold for a bounty to the US army. He spent five years as a detainee in the Kandahar Internment Facility and the Guantanamo camps despite the FBI and the US and German intelligence thought he was innocent. Kurnaz says he is innocent and has been tortured during his detention. Diane Beaver, a military lawyer known for drafting a memo widely described as "the torture memo"; Matthew Diaz

Matthew Diaz

Matthew Mark Diaz is a former active-duty Lieutenant Commander and Judge Advocate General's Corps officer in the United States Navy. In mid-to-late 2004, Diaz served a six month tour of duty in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as deputy director of the detention center's legal office...

, a navy lawyer who was sentenced to 6 month of imprisonment for leaking the names of Guantanamo captives to human rights organizations; Gonzalo Boye

Gonzalo Boye

Gonzalo Boye is a human rights lawyer, based in Spain, notable for trying to use Spanish law to charge Bush administration officials for their roles in war crimes committed against citizens or residents of Spain while the US held them in extrajudicial detention.Boye was born in Chile.Many nations...

, a Spanish lawyer who tried to charge those he thought responsible for war crimes committed at Guantanamo.