''You Don't Like The Truth: Four Days Inside Guantanamo'' is a 2010 documentary. The film focuses on the recorded interrogations of Canadian

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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

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s. The film premiered at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in

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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 ''

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also produced a series of short

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videos as a companion to the feature-length documentary.

Summary

Omar Khadr was taken captive in Pakistan at the age of 15 and ultimately imprisoned at Guantanamo, charged with killing a US soldier. Khadr was finally transferred into Canadian custody in late 2012. He was held in a maximum security prison and transferred in 2014 to a medium-security one. He was released in 2015.

Reception

Peter Bradshaw wrote in ''

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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.
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Andrew O'Hehir wrote in ''

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'', "Khadr became a sort of ritual sacrifice by the Canadian government, an offering to its American allies and/or overlords." Sam Kressner wrote in ''

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Awards

The film won the

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at the

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. The film won an award for "best documentary about society" at the

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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 ''

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,'' the film did not yet have a distributor in the United States, but was eligible for an Oscar nomination opening in New York City in September 2011. It did not receive a nomination.

Politics

Shortly before the film's premiere, Canada lost its bid for one of the rotating seats on the

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. According to Rhéal Séguin, writing in ''

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'', 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."

References

External links

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