Gitmo (2005)

Name: Gitmo
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2005-11-04

1h 22m

Running Time

Plot.

Looks at the link between Guantanomo Bay and the torture methods used in Iraq. How US forces handle the task of retrieving information from the detainees. Ex detainee Mehdi from Sweden breaks his vow of silence.

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Cast & Crew.

Erik Gandini

Director

Tarik Saleh

Director

Kristina Åberg

Producer

Mikael Olsen

Co-Producer

Lukas Eisenhauer

Cinematographer

Carl Nilsson

Cinematographer

Thomas Lagerman

Editor

Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

Editor

Krister Linder

Original Music Composer

Details.

Release Date
November 4, 2005

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 22m

Genres
Documentary

Wiki.

Gitmo: The New Rules of War is a Swedish documentary about the Guantanamo Bay detention camp by Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh.

The film features interviews with Janis Karpinski, Mehdi Ghezali and Geoffrey Miller, among others.

Gitmo premiered at IDFA in 2005 and reached mainstream theaters in Sweden on 10 February 2006.

In 2003, a year after Swedish citizen Mehdi Ghezali was detained at "Gitmo", which sparked some media interest in Sweden, Erik and Tarik started filming the documentary and visited the base on a guided tour of selected areas.

Mehdi Ghezali was released in 2004, and was interviewed for the film.

In 2006, the musical score composed by Krister Linder won first prize for music in a TV feature at the Festival international Musique et Cinéma in Auxerre, France.