Gitmo: The New Rules of War
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Erik Gandini
Janis Karpinski
Mehdi Ghezali
Kristina Aberg
Lukas Eisenhauer
Lukas Eisenhauer
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Investigates Guantanamo Bay, the American army base in Cuba where 637 suspects of terrorism have been detained, and what exactly is going on in "Gitmo," as insiders call the base. Interviews are alternated with brazenly inserted speeches by Bush, Bin Laden and Donald Rumsfeld. A former prisoner, the Swedish citizen Mehdi Ghezali, still does not want to talk about his time in Gitmo, but an English friend does. The interrogation methods were unusual, to say the least. The quest for the truth brings the filmmakers via the Abu Ghraib prison--yet another emotionally charged name--to the world of war outsourcing, Romanian mercenaries and to the story of an American general and former commander at Guantanamo who was dismissed for being "too nice."
Crew
Kristina Aberg
Lukas Eisenhauer
Lukas Eisenhauer
Mehdi Ghezali
Janis Karpinski
Thomas Lagerman
Krister Linder
Hans Moller
Mikkel E.g. Nielson
Carl Nilsson
Carl Nilsson
Mikael Olsen
Tarik Saleh
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Winner of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival.
Released in United States 2006
Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (Documentary Competition) May 25-June 18, 2006.
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (Documentary Competition) May 25-June 18, 2006.)
