''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 Selim Wallner is a German/Canadian filmmaker. Wallner was a co-founder of Xenophile Media in 2001. He has worked with Rhombus Media since 1995. Thomas Wallner is a producer, writer, director and game designer working in feature film, ...

and won the special jury prize at the 2011

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is the largest documentary festival in North America. The event takes place annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The 27th edition of the festival took place online throughout May and June ...

. The four individuals profiled in the film are Murat Kurnaz, a

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raised in

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, who was arrested in

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and sold for a bounty to the

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. He spent five years as a detainee in the Kandahar Internment Facility and the Guantanamo camps despite the

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and the US and German intelligence thought he was innocent. Kurnaz says he is innocent and has been tortured during his detention.

Diane Beaver Diane E. Beaver is an American lawyer and former officer in the United States Army. In 2001, she was Chief of the Eastern U.S. Torts Branch of the U.S. Army Claims Service. By 2002, she was deployed to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp as a ...

, a military lawyer known for drafting a memo widely described as ''"the torture memo"'';

Matthew Diaz Matthew Mark Diaz is a former active-duty Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) and Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAGC) 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 dire ...

, a navy lawyer who was sentenced to 6 month of imprisonment for leaking the names of Guantanamo captives to human rights organizations; Gonzalo Boye, a Spanish lawyer who tried to charge those he thought responsible for war crimes committed at Guantanamo.

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