You Don't Like the Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo
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You Don't Like The Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo is an award winning 2010 documentary. The film focuses on the recorded interrogations of Canadian child soldier Omar Khadr
, by Canadian intelligence personnel. 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 Cinema
, in Montreal
in October 2010.
The film was shown to Canadian Parliamentarians in October 2010.
Khadr's defence attorney's plan to show the film during their summation, if Khadr's trial goes forward.
According to the Montreal Gazette the film-makers, Luc Cote
and Patricio Henriquez
, also produced a series of short YouTube
videos as a companion to the feature length documentary.
Shortly before the film's premiere Canada lost its bid for one of the rotating seats on the United Nation's Security Council.
According to Rhéal Séguin, writing in the Globe and Mail, the filmmakers "are convinced one reason Canada failed to get a seat on the United Nations Security Council was because the federal government has been condemned by many countries for failing to respect Mr. Khadr’s human rights and the provisions of the international convention on child soldiers."
The film won an award for "best documentary about society" at the Gémeaux film festival on September 13 2011.
The film was nominated in the best documentary category for the 2010 Genie awards
.
According to a September 27 2011 review in the Film Journal the film does not have a distributor in the United States
, but is eligible for an Oscar nomination due to opening in New York City in September 2011.
, wrote ""His unseen interrogator here is a Canadian intelligence officer, evidently the lead officer in a team, permitted by the Americans to question the prisoner on the understanding that a friendly seeming fellow countryman might cause Khadr to open up and give the US valuable intelligence. So far from being a respite from torture, this insincere friendly chat is a hideous refinement of cruelty: a horrifying turn of the screw.""
According to Andrew O'Hehir, writing in Salon, "Khadr became a sort of ritual sacrifice by the Canadian government, an offering to its American allies and/or overlords."
Sam Kressner, writing in Filmcritic, wrote that:
Omar Khadr
Omar Ahmed Khadr is a Canadian child soldier and one of the juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He was convicted of five charges under the United States Military Commissions Act of 2009 including murder in violation of the law of war and providing material support for terrorism,...
, by Canadian intelligence personnel. 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 Cinema
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma was known as the Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media until 2004. Founded in 1971, by Claude Chamberlan and Dimitri Eipides, it is an annual independent film festival held in Montreal and features independent films from around the world...
, in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
in October 2010.
The film was shown to Canadian Parliamentarians in October 2010.
Khadr's defence attorney's plan to show the film during their summation, if Khadr's trial goes forward.
According to the Montreal Gazette the film-makers, Luc Cote
Luc Côté
Luc Côté is an award winning Quebec based film-maker.You don't like the truth, a film he co-directed with frequent collaborator Patricio Henriquez won the best documentary about society award at the first Gémeaux Awards in 2011....
and Patricio Henriquez
Patricio Henriquez
Patricio Henriquez is an award winning Quebec based film-maker.Henriquez grew up and trained in film-making in Chile, leaving the country after Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende....
, also produced a series of short YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
videos as a companion to the feature length documentary.
Shortly before the film's premiere Canada lost its bid for one of the rotating seats on the United Nation's Security Council.
According to Rhéal Séguin, writing in the Globe and Mail, the filmmakers "are convinced one reason Canada failed to get a seat on the United Nations Security Council was because the federal government has been condemned by many countries for failing to respect Mr. Khadr’s human rights and the provisions of the international convention on child soldiers."
Awards
The film won the Special Jury Award at the Amsterdam International Documentary Festival (IDFA).The film won an award for "best documentary about society" at the Gémeaux film festival on September 13 2011.
The film was nominated in the best documentary category for the 2010 Genie awards
31st Genie Awards
The 31st Genie Awards ceremony was held on March 10, 2011 to honour films released in 2010. Nominations were announced on February 2, 2011.William Shatner was announced as the ceremony's host on February 16.-Motion Picture:*Incendies*10½...
.
According to a September 27 2011 review in the Film Journal the film does not have a distributor in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, but is eligible for an Oscar nomination due to opening in New York City in September 2011.
Reviews
Peter Bradshaw, writing in The GuardianThe Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, wrote ""His unseen interrogator here is a Canadian intelligence officer, evidently the lead officer in a team, permitted by the Americans to question the prisoner on the understanding that a friendly seeming fellow countryman might cause Khadr to open up and give the US valuable intelligence. So far from being a respite from torture, this insincere friendly chat is a hideous refinement of cruelty: a horrifying turn of the screw.""
According to Andrew O'Hehir, writing in Salon, "Khadr became a sort of ritual sacrifice by the Canadian government, an offering to its American allies and/or overlords."
Sam Kressner, writing in Filmcritic, wrote that: